I don't care who writes a nation's laws, or crafts its advanced treaties, if I can write its economics textbooks.

I shall run wild for six months to a year, but I have utterly no confidence for the second and third years.

-- Isoroku Yamamoto

Do not give things to children; give them hardship.

-- Nogi Maresuke

He who reads much and walks much, sees much and knows much.

-- Miguel de Cervantes

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

-- Hermann Hesse

Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

-- Victor Hugo