“Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose. I'll begin with that. With Love.”

“The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.”

“And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.”

“I have decided to escape, to defy the shogun. Today I will begin walking the road to hell. But you will choose your own path. So, soon you may be seeing heaven. Choose the sword, and you will join me. Choose the ball and you join your mother, in death. You don’t understand my words, but you must choose. So… come boy, choose life or death.”

“We'll be together. I'll make this right for us. For you. I love you, little girl. In life and in death.”

“In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?”