The sky is the sky wherever you go.

Lady Eboshi: "What exactly are you here for?"
Ashitaka: "To see with eyes unclouded by hate."

...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

When you reach the stature I have, the ladies kneel in worship at your awesomeness!!

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

It is like the officer who engaged a comic actor dismissing him from the stage. "But I have not played my five acts, only three." "True, but in life three acts can be the whole play."

Who would desire peace, prepare for war. -Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum