There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

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.

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

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

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

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.

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?