One man alone can bring nothing to perfection.

Nothing in this world is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

I shall dedicate myself utterly, giving everything until death claims me.

-- Zhuge Liang

Writing is the work above all other work.

-- Ichiyō Higuchi

Have you never touched this soft skin, flushed with hot blood? How lonely you must be, preaching the Way.

-- Akiko Yosano

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it.

-- Gabriel García Márquez

I played because I loved the sport, not for money.

-- Jim Thorpe

It is wrong to say women cannot do sport.

-- Kinue Hitomi