What is true happiness, really?

Be not defeated by the rain, be not defeated by the wind.

There can be no individual happiness until the whole world is happy.

Revere Heaven, Love People.

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

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

A beautiful death is never within our grasp.

-- Yukio Mishima

理由も分らずに押付けられたものを大人しく受取って、理由も分らずに生きて行くのが、我々生きもののさだめだ。

-- Atsushi Nakajima

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

-- William Shakespeare