To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

When a music teacher that I had at school was taken ill and we had a variety show and I had to fill in - that's when I realized I had a voice.

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being I would like to express my sympathies and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

The future belongs to us because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment we have the resourcefulness and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people not good people (goodness demands strength) who are taken advantage of.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass glory in the flower. We will grieve not rather find strength in what remains behind.

By the time I was 8 years old sports had pretty much taken over my life.

There's steps that I've taken already and each week talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference but I'm putting it into action.

In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in the final question in our future-oriented society is always What next?

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.