„Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you’re here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it’s beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine…” (James Clavell, Shogun)
„How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now. ” (James Clavell, Shōgun)
„Only
by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of
life. ”
(James Clavell, Shōgun)
„.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.” (James Clavell, Shōgun)