The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Courage is grace under pressure.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

In war, a victory of sixty percent is the best. Total victory breeds complacency.

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

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

-- The British general who defeated Napoleon at Water

History is a chain of wills attempting to transmit something.

-- Yasushi Inoue

Writing is the work above all other work.

-- Ichiyo Higuchi

Within the motive for crime lies society's contradiction.

-- Seicho Matsumoto

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-- Thomas Mann