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“.. but what a pity that I did not come here [in Venice] when I was younger and more adventurous.”

“Shihonage is the foundation of Aikido. All you ever need to master is shihonage.”

“I just like having fun. It's a very good release, rock music, but you know you say that I am a different person on stage and that same thing could be said of anyone going out to do his job. It's my work, and I'm very serious about it, getting it right - when we began, we approached it the way we did because we were not prepared to be out-of-work musicians, ever. We said either take it on as a serious commodity or don't do it at all.”

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.”

“A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.

I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”

“I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”

“Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.”

“I never let my comrades die.”

“Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.”

“I only came here to give.
If you come to doubt, I'll give you every reason to doubt. If you come suspicious, I'll give you every reason to be suspicious. But if you come seeking Love, I'll show you more love than you've ever known.”

“Adversities often bring good qualities to the front.”

“Books should be closed each year, especially in partnership because frequent accounting makes for long friendship.”

“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”

“I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.”

“I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
think I'm just happy…”

“Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken”

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

“Every free thing has an invisible cost attached to it.”

“Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.”