“Hokkaido is cold so soup is very important to us.It gives us warmth and cheers us up.I want to be someone who provides that, too.”

“Let us crush these so-called biological clocks that give us nothing but fear, and encourage us to make stupid decisions. Let us crush these biological clocks that hurt us and rob us of the fabulous lives that Jesus died to give us. These clocks that not only hurt us, but hurt many generations after us.It is time. We need you.”

“God’s grace will cover us like a cloak-enough to provide for survival but too thin to keep out all the cold.”

“Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us? Who hasn't considered this terrible possibility?”

“We've learnt to appreciate and respect and love someone who's different from us. It is very easy to accept and love those who are like us, but to love someone different is very hard, and you helped us to do that.”

“*We give so little when it's in us always to give so much more.It's bothering to listen with an open heart to someone who smells bad. It's hard.”