"I'm on TV! I gotta call my folks!"

"Even if you're a main character, you can still die... I better be careful-ttebayo."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"Everyone's carrying something that matters. You just don't realize when you're carrying it. It's only after it slips out of your hand that you realize how heavy it was in the first place. So many times I thought that I'd never carry a load like that ever again. And yet, before I realized it, I was carrying it again. I'd feel so much better if I just got rid of it. But I just can't bring myself to do it."

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"[Shinpachi is tied up, hanging from a tree, and the rope is held by the client] What kind of training is this? What kind of potential does he have?"

— Shimura Shinpachi · Gintama

"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."

— Gintama · Gintama

"Shut it! Do you know the pain of having a permanent perm?!"

— Gintoki Sakata · Gintama

"You mean that we failed again to prevent a bombing? What are you doing, Hijikata-san? You should take this job more seriously."

— Okita Sougo · Gintama