If the cuckoo will not sing, I shall make it want to sing.

I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.

Wisdom that comes only after hearing others' opinions is not true wisdom.

Youth on horseback has passed. The world is at peace and white hairs multiply. With what remains of life that heaven permits, how can I not enjoy it?

-- Date Masamune

児孫のために美田を買わず。

-- Saigō Takamori

Let the world say what it will about me. Only I know what I must do.

-- Sakamoto Ryōma

Within the motive for crime lies society's contradiction.

-- Seichō Matsumoto

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

-- Henrik Ibsen

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

-- Virginia Woolf