Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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.

理想を持ち、信念に生きよ。理想や信念を見失った者は、戦う前から負けているといえよう。

-- Oda Nobunaga

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

-- Sakamoto Ryōma

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- Xiang Yu

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.

-- Carl von Clausewitz

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

-- Douglas MacArthur

The purpose of maintaining military forces for a hundred years is solely to preserve peace.

-- Isoroku Yamamoto