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.

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.

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

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline and training is all about.

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

.., 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.