“The more peaceful you are, the more beautiful your face becomes; the more violent you are, the uglier your face becomes!”

“slowing down your responses and becoming a better listeners aids you in becoming a more peaceful person”

“After looking at myself in the mirror, I looked at Satsuko. I could not believe that we were creatures of the same species. The uglier the face in the mirror, the more extraordinarily beautiful Satsuko seemed. If that ugly face were only uglier, I thought regretfully, Satsuko would look even more beautiful.”

“Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”

“To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.”

“As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.”