I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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

Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, immovable as the mountain.

-- The 'Tiger of Kai' who transformed his landlocked mountain domain into one of Sengoku Japan's most formidable military powers

Revere Heaven, Love People.

-- The charismatic giant who led Japan's Meiji Restoration through force of personality and moral authority

兵無常勢、水無常形。能因敵変化而取勝者、謂之神。

-- A 5th-century BCE Chinese military theorist whose

No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

-- The Prussian military theorist whose 'On War' became the most influential work of strategic theory in Western history

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

-- William Shakespeare

In this human world, the path is never singular. There are always multiple paths.

-- Mori Ogai