I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.
The only living life is in the past and future-the present is an interlude- strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.