Endure what is difficult to endure and to suffer what is difficult to suffer.

All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?

I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

You can't imagine how much more work I had when I was a god.

They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.

The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly.

I discovered freedom for the first time in England.

History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.

If you're in the middle of a monumental and devastating life crisis, hang in there. It'll be over in about an hour. Two hours, tops.

I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

The fresh start is always an illusion but a necessary one.

Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?

Rien n'est vrai que ce qu'on ne dit pas. Nothing is true except that which is unsaid.

That’s what religion does. It points a finger. It causes wars. It breaks apart countries. It’s a petri dish for stereotypes to grow in. Religion’s not about being holy...Just holier-than-thous.

My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven, which brings us back to the hero’s shoulders and the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558