Open the shoji screen and look outside; the world is vast.

Do not think about a hundred things at once; think a hundred times about one thing.

Ask why five times.

Invention lies not in knowledge itself but in the ingenuity to apply it.

It is hard to retain what you learn unless you practice it.

-- Seneca

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

-- Marcus Aurelius

The beginning is half of the whole.

-- Aristotle

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

-- Laozi

Think by becoming the thing; act by becoming the thing.

-- Kitarō Nishida

To know and not to act is not yet to know.

-- Wang Yangming