There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Fortune lies in heaven. Armor lies in the heart. Achievement lies in the legs.

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

The greatest warrior in Japan.

-- Called 'the greatest warrior in Japan' by his enem

人の意見を聞いてから出る知恵は、本当の知恵ではない。

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

He who knows only victory and does not know defeat will suffer for it.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

Come and take them.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae