"I've told you, this isn't a cigarette. I…" — Gintoki Sakata Quote

"A farewell is like the other side of a coin. It will only happen when there is an encounter. Rather than dreading the day we have to part, shouldn't we be happy that we had the chance to meet today instead?"

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"Who the hell are they? Pedophile yakuza?"

— Shimura Shinpachi · Gintama

"Don't worry. When people break their old selves they embark a journey to find their new selves."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"It may be tough now, but the worst is surely yet to come. Keep that in mind, and you'll be fine."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"Whether I go or not, I'll die anyway. I have an organ more important than my heart. Although you can't see it, I feel it going through my head down to my feet, and I know it exists within me. It lets me stand on my feet, it lets me walk forward without trembling. If I stop here, I feel like it would break... My soul will break."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"No matter how colossal a power you obtain, no matter how gigantic an army you bring with you, I ain't scared. While you've abandoned a hundred, I've connected with a thousand. While you've destroyed a thousand, I've been helped by ten thousand. So what's an army of a few thousand? We have protected everything as just three people. We're the Yorozuya."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama