Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

You've commited murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head.

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before." "Tell her when the moon's full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons.