“it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.”

“The world is always full of the sound of waves.The little fishes, abandoning themselves to the waves, dance and sing, and play, but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows it depth?”

“She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.”

“Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagabonds. A serious student is much more concerned with training his mind and disciplining his spirit than with developing martial skills.”

“it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.”

“It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.”

“A day in a man’s life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.”

“Anywhere there is life, there are eyes. And things, too, speak to those who have ears to hear.”

“The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.”

“Her only weapons were her tears.”

“It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.”