"The idea has grown up that the scientific approach can alone properly be said to be intellectual, whereas the approac…"

"People, even poor people, were in general more contented before the 1914-18 war than they are now, although not nearl…"

"If the confusion, fear and discontent of our times seem to be reaching towards an extreme, despite a technological de…"

"Anyone who clings to religion is clinging, not to an arbitrary framework of man's devising, but to the only framework…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"A "Naturfolk" learns by intimate contact with nature that there is a healing power in the flower and the grass, in th…"

"Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-u…"

"A typical samurai calls a literary savant a book-smelling sot. Another compares learning to an ill-smelling vegetable…"