When he found the power to express what was in his heart, he found the love of a woman.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.

Kurokami no
Shira kami made to
Musubiteshi
Kokoro hitotsu wo
Ima takame ya mo

If I want drugs, I don't have to do a gig to get them. I do a gig when I feel shit, because I need to be playing. There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music

Daisuke Katô - Inokichi

To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.

Can I call my mother? Tell her how much I love her?

Maybe if I stick close to the big guy, maybe those pests will stop shooting at us.

Ito ga tame
Hozu e no ume wo
Ta oru to wa
Shizu e no tsuyu ni
Nurenikeru kamo

My mission is clear: to ensure that Singapore thrives and grows after Mr. Lee Kuan Yew; to find a new group of men and women to help me carry on where he and his colleagues left off; and to build a nation of character and grace where people can live lives of dignity and fulfillment, and care for one another.

There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa - Lieutenant A. J. Shimamura (seasons 1 & 2)

Omoitsutsu
Nureba ya hito no
Mietsuramu
Yume to shiriseba
Samezaramashi wo

M. R. Kale, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.53790/page/n235/mode/2up Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava Cantos I-VII] (Bombay: Standard Publishing Co., 1917)

[S]urplus wealth should be considered as a sacred trust, to be administered during the lives of its owners, by them as trustees, for the good of the community in which and from which it had been acquired.

Vivek Oberoi – Narendra Modi