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.

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

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- Xiang Yu

I am like a wind-blown leaf, with nothing to compare to.

-- Ichiyō Higuchi

I wish to die as Mori Rintaro, a man of Iwami.

-- Mori Ōgai

Love is a kind of creative act.

-- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu

I contain multitudes.

-- Walt Whitman