Love was like a toothache.

Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.

I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself.

If a man wanted to put the entire universe in his breast, he couldn't do it with his chest stuck out.

It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see, Buddhism teaches that women are evil. Fiends. Messengers of hell. I've spent years immersed in the scriptures, so it's no accident that you and I fight all the time.

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.