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?

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

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.

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

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

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where.

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.