You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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?