All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Revere Heaven, Love People.

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

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

-- Mori Ogai

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

-- Junichiro Tanizaki

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

-- Oscar Wilde

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

A beautiful death is never within our grasp.

-- Yukio Mishima