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

Let the world say what it will about me. Only I know what I must do.

Freedom, Sancho, is one of the most precious gifts that heaven gave to man.

-- Miguel de Cervantes

Writing is only good for recording names. Swordsmanship defeats one man — that's not worth learning. I want to learn what defeats ten thousand.

-- Xiang Yu

England expects that every man will do his duty.

-- Horatio Nelson

I wanted the world to know that my country, Ethiopia, has always won with determination and heroism.

-- Abebe Bikila

I wanted to prove that the Japanese, too, could compete with the world.

-- Hironoshin Furuhashi

We're on God's side.

-- Joe Louis