Erik Christian Haugaard said this quote

Those soldiers belonging to the victorious side whose blood has oozed into the ground and whose hearts have ceased beating, have they partaken in the triumph as well as those who are unscarred and busy draining cups of sake to each other's glorious deeds? I rather think they belong instead to the defeated....You mean that those who are killed all belong to the defeated, regardless of which side they were on?

~ Erik Christian Haugaard

Now he understood clearly that roads do divide, at the crossroad there is a choice, and blinding oneself to it is a form of choosing, too; it is the fool's way, the coward's way.

~ Erik Christian Haugaard

I am sure that there is many a young man who would think it a great honor to exchange his name for yours.

~ Erik Christian Haugaard

Nearly all samurai practice Zen - it is the Way of Enlightenment. Possibly the light of Zen is so strong that it has blinded me to its virtue. Yoshitoki smiled. It is very good discipline for the mind, as the martial arts are for the body. Kenmotsu looked very smug as he said this. I do Zazen twice a week. I think it will do no-one any harm, though personally I find it more pleasant to think than to empty my mind of thought.

~ Erik Christian Haugaard