I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means.

Out of the water, I am nothing.

Revere Heaven, Love People.

-- The charismatic giant who led Japan's Meiji Restoration through force of personality and moral authority

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

-- William Shakespeare

In this human world, the path is never singular. There are always multiple paths.

-- Mori Ogai

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

-- Charles Dickens

We Orientals create beauty by generating shadows in places that are nothing special.

-- Junichiro Tanizaki

無限と永遠の差は、一方が量であり、一方が質であるという点にある。

-- Yukio Mishima