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

There is no use deliberating now.

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.

The die is cast.

-- Julius Caesar

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.

-- Bruce Lee

Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.

-- Frederick II of Prussia

I may lose a battle, but I shall never lose a minute.

-- Napoleon

An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

-- Genghis Khan

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

-- Leo Tolstoy