By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?

A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.

To give a person an opinion one must first judge well whether that person is of the disposition to receive it or not.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.

The way of the Samurai is found in death.

Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning.

In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

The end is important in all things.

One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.

As you think so you act.

He was the ocean and I was the sand, i lived content in stillness and he washed a shore everytime, as a better man.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

I find drug use disrespectful, self destructive and weak. I want no part of it. I believe in complete respect for myself and others.

I was really, really lucky because I have always worked. It hasn't always been consistent, but I have always worked.

"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.

I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to.

Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.

An ethical atheist is infinitely more valuable than an unethical pious! What matters is whether you are ethical or not; your beliefs are utterly trivial beside this matter!

The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do.