One need not be afraid of anyone. If one fears someone, it is because one has given that person power over oneself.

Every person's life is a journey toward himself.

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- Xiang Yu

I am like a wind-blown leaf, with nothing to compare to.

-- Ichiyō Higuchi

I wish to die as Mori Rintaro, a man of Iwami.

-- Mori Ōgai

Love is a kind of creative act.

-- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu

I contain multitudes.

-- Walt Whitman