Writing is the work above all other work.

If I refuse to be defeated by hardship, if only I stand firm, the world holds no terror for me.

In this uncertain world, we cannot know what tomorrow brings.

-- Sanada Yukimura

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

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi

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

-- Oda Nobunaga

I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

-- Cao Cao

Ungrateful fatherland, you shall not even have my bones.

-- Scipio Africanus

On a moonlit night at Hansan Island, I sit atop the watchtower, stroking my great sword, deep in troubled thought.

-- Yi Sun-sin