Yang Wenli — memorable quote from Legend of the Galactic Heroes

“You're free to like or hate whoever you want.”

“I work to support my hobby. So if you asked me which I'd choose, my job or my hobby, my hobby takes priority.”

“Simplicity is the easiest path to true beauty.”

“Just live normally. You'll be better off if you can catch some fish. Dig up the caves so you can set sail whenever you need to. It wouldn't be easy. But you have an endless amount of time ahead of you.”

“A prison, you say? You think you'll be free if you go to the world above? A girl like you can never be free no matter where you go. After all, we humans are apes put in a cage called Earth. There is no difference between the world above and the world below. The only difference is which is bigger or smaller. People who pout about how confining the cage is can never be happy. They live their lives only seeing the iron bars. A true lack of freedom is when you cage your soul.”