Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

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

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

-- Zeno of Citium

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

-- Date Masamune

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

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi

An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

-- Genghis Khan

A single arrow is easily broken, but a bundle of arrows cannot be broken.

-- Genghis Khan

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

-- Ichiyō Higuchi