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

Abandon the illusion of Great Japanism.

-- Tanzan Ishibashi

Heaven does not create one person above or below another.

-- Fukuzawa Yukichi

Do not give things to children; give them hardship.

-- Nogi Maresuke

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

-- Isoroku Yamamoto

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

-- Hermann Hesse

If in the first act you have a gun hanging on the wall, then in the last act it must fire.

-- Anton Chekhov