In war, a victory of sixty percent is the best. Total victory breeds complacency.

People are the castle, people are the walls, people are the moat. Compassion makes allies; cruelty makes enemies.

Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, immovable as the mountain.

There is no substitute for hard work.

-- Thomas Edison

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

-- Thomas Edison

Wisdom that comes only after hearing others' opinions is not true wisdom.

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

不自由を常と思えば不足なし。

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

If the cuckoo will not sing, kill it.

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

Establish your purpose, and make it the source of all things.

-- The radical samurai who created Japan's first modern militia and ignited the revolution that ended feudal rule