Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well.

Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.

A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words.

this is not a case about disability, this is a case about the balance between the benefits a treatment will deliver, if any, and the injury, the pain and the downsides of inflicting that treatment.

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason

They came over here for a better life, then his health goes south and he's put on disability, then when their home burns down with six kids -- it's such a string of bad luck. Just when they think they've almost got what they're dreaming about, Boom! It burns to the ground.