“As my Master used to say, ‘Don’t be afraid of ghosts that knock on your door at midnight because you are a virtuous person’.”

“And money can’t buy everything. For example: poverty.”

“History is always written from the viewpoints of the leaders. And increasingly, in our age, war leaders do not get shot at with any serious consistency.”

“The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.”

“The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.”