Disqualified as a human being. I had now ceased utterly to be a human being.

Happiness may be something like gold dust sinking to the bottom of a river of sorrow, faintly glimmering.

Mine has been a life of much shame.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

Let us put an end to this war. For we know how to win battles but not how to use our victories.

-- The Carthaginian general who crossed the Alps with elephants and brought Rome to its knees

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

-- George Orwell

There is no medicine that cures what happiness cannot.

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

弱虫でもいいじゃないか。弱虫の一生だっていいじゃないか。

-- Shusaku Endo

Life is too long to do nothing, yet too short to accomplish something.

-- Atsushi Nakajima