And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Work is love made visible.

男の修行とは、苦しいことを笑ってすることだ

-- The Japanese admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor attack and commanded the Combined Fleet during the Pacific War's decisive early phase

A single arrow is easily broken, but a bundle of arrows cannot be broken.

-- The founder of the Mongol Empire who created histo

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

-- Alexandre Dumas

If I refuse to be defeated by hardship, if only I stand firm, the world holds no terror for me.

-- Ichiyo Higuchi

The history of humanity is also a history of excavating hidden facts.

-- Seicho Matsumoto

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

-- Ernest Hemingway