“Without a constant livelihood, there will be no constant heart.”

“...wealth without pride is the way of the great sage.”

“Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.”

“In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.”

“The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.Long night clear evening--what are they for?”

“It is hard to provide proof of love. And yet love undeniably does exist. It is only that humans fail to recognize it when and where it does.Unbeknownst to me at the time, the world was overflowing in love...and now I live at last in the midst of that flow...”

“Are you telling me we're fling into Jupiter?""No, we'll probably crash into Io first," Shirosaki said."The thought of diving head first into a sea of magma doesn't exactly turn me on.”