Fifty years of human life -- compared to the realm beneath heaven, it is but a dream, an illusion.

Concentrate your attack on a single point. Do nothing that is wasteful.

Hold fast to your ideals and live by your convictions. Those who lose sight of their ideals and convictions have already lost before the battle begins.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

-- Julius Caesar

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu

There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is hesitation.

-- Franz Kafka

In war, I have heard of clumsy swiftness, but never seen clever delay.

-- Sun Tzu

Before wine, one should sing — for how long is life? Like morning dew, so many days have passed.

-- Cao Cao

Heaven destroys me — it is not a failure of warfare.

-- Xiang Yu