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.

A man's training is to do what is hard with a smile.

-- Isoroku Yamamoto

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

-- Genghis Khan

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

-- Ichiyō Higuchi

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

-- Seichō Matsumoto

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

-- Ernest Hemingway

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

-- Henrik Ibsen