Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

-- Ernest Hemingway

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-- Thomas Mann

Governance must be clean and transparent.

-- Ōkubo Toshimichi

One gun that hits with every shot can match a hundred guns that hit one in a hundred.

-- Tōgō Heihachirō

Beauty is always discovered in the actualities of living.

-- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Writing is the work above all other work.

-- Ichiyō Higuchi