That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

We'll dive into the earth together. And if one day a wild flower finds water and springs up from that piece of earth, its stem will have two blooms for sure: one will be you, the other me.

However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

I'm only seven, although I died In Hiroshima long ago, I'm seven now as I was then - When children die, they do not grow.

And don't forget, a prisoner's wife must always think good thoughts.

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.