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

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

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.

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

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.

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

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?