First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.
Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.” (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)
Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.
The sun dances in her and she has an immense joy of life
Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way.
Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader
Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle.
That’s the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.
When a man’s pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult.
Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another’s labor?
Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn’t it? They spill so much of other people’s blood.
Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and see and earth.
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.