Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.

Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?

Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.

Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? …Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?