Oh, you crows! Feast away! What a spread! Soup straight from the eye sockets! And thick red sake! But don't have too much Or you'll surely get drunk.

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

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.

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.

To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful weed, trodden underfoot -- a conglomeration of human lives putting down roots in this slime, living and letting live in the struggle to survive; and he was stirred by the fearful and magnificent courage communicated by the scene.

The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.