I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture art and architecture and learned of the existence of the game of GO which I still play.

However democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf which hunts in a pack has a greater chance of survival than the lion which hunts alone.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.