009

You . . . think yourself a great man because you live in a little world, and that a bad one. The Odyssey, Book XVIII

008

The purpose of the Our Father is not self improvement.

007

006

The concept of rights, so fruitful for America in its first two centuries, will be its undoing in this century.

005

It seemed to him that he had never seen pure goodness shine out of a human countenance as it did from hers.

— Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, "December Night"

004

I suddenly remember what Ozu had told one of his actress who, baffled, asked him what she was supposed to be feeling. His answer was: You are not supposed to feel, you are supposed to do.

— Donald Richie, essay on Chisu Ryhu, The Donald Richie Reader

003

The clown is lonely, but he must hide his loneliness and play the fool joyfully, comically. That’s the spirit of Ozu’s film.

— Quotes from Yuharu Atsuta