Without detachment, one cannot clarify purpose; without tranquility, one cannot reach far.

I was originally a commoner, tilling the fields at Nanyang.

親賢臣、遠小人、此先漢所以興隆也。親小人、遠賢臣、此後漢所以傾頽也。

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

I fight my enemies with swords, not with salt.

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

Can you call yourself human if you forget your debts of loyalty and pursue only selfish gain?

-- Called 'the greatest warrior in Japan' by his enem

Life is like a long journey carrying a heavy burden. Never hurry.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

If you do not know you may fall halfway through your work, you will not fall halfway through.

-- The visionary who brokered the alliance that overthrew Japan's feudal government and launched the country into modernity

Promote talent and talent alone.

-- The dominant warlord of China's Three Kingdoms era