Take people as they are — there are no others.

What do I care about my chatter from yesterday?

We choose freedom.

I rebel, therefore we exist.

-- Albert Camus

My predecessors ruled but I know nothing about them, and so I do what I do that people may remember me.

-- Mansa Musa

Nothing is more impossible than what Napoleon faced.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

Gentlemen, life is short. Never waste your mind on trivial matters. Study much, work much, think much, laugh much.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

A nation's hundred-year plan rests on education.

-- Itō Hirobumi

There can be no diplomacy without the power to defend oneself.

-- Shigeru Yoshida