We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

If we have a thousand bamboo spears, there's nothing to worry about a war with the Soviet Union.

Give me a Japanese division armed with bamboo spears and I'll wipe out the entire Russian Far Eastern Army.

It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.

Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

According to our belief, Japan was founded by the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is revered by the entire nation for her all-pervading virtue, and from whom our Imperial House is descended.

A war minister is able to force the adoption of any measure desired by the Camp or to block any measure that meets his disapproval.

I ask you to remember that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible.

Unless you remove the weeds, a good crop will be ruined.

It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.

The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.

When everybody is planting apples a visionary plants oranges.

Don't ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It's too short, and you're too special.

No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.

You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third.

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

I don't trust you with my shoe; I wouldn't trust you with an old pair of socks.

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

America is the strongest empire ever, with the largest military. We spend ten times what the Russians do. And they have equal nuclear ability as we do, because they're precise.

Complexity - limits competition.

If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year.... Today should always be our most wonderful day.