I would rather die going to the west than live by returning to the east.

On high pines the white crane sleeps; in deep pools the blue dragon rests.

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

-- Zeno of Citium

I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

-- Date Masamune

An action committed in anger is an action doomed to failure.

-- Genghis Khan

Follow heaven and forsake the self.

-- Natsume Sōseki

Every person's life is a journey toward himself.

-- Hermann Hesse