"Whether in a town or a village, whether toward a cow or a person… If you're sincere toward others, they'll respond in kind. That approach has yet to fail me."

"A terrible storm came and wreaked havoc on the Agency, but that's alright. A disastrous storm, after all, is the same thing as blessed rain. […] Let's stay alive, everyone. Let's trudge past the storm and through the night. 'Cos in the end, we can't stop living atop this spinning rock we call earth."