It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Truth-force — not passive resistance, but the active pursuit and holding of truth.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

-- Tenzin Gyatso

My predecessors ruled but I know nothing about them, and so I do what I do that people may remember me.

-- Mansa Musa

Nothing is more impossible than what Napoleon faced.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

Gentlemen, life is short. Never waste your mind on trivial matters. Study much, work much, think much, laugh much.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

A nation's hundred-year plan rests on education.

-- Itō Hirobumi

There can be no diplomacy without the power to defend oneself.

-- Shigeru Yoshida