The beautiful is always strange.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

If the cuckoo will not sing, I shall make it want to sing.

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

Life is like a long journey carrying a heavy burden. Never hurry.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

A human life of fifty years, compared to the span beneath heaven, is nothing but a dream, an illusion.

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

-- The dominant warlord of China's Three Kingdoms era

For human beings, fate arrives suddenly, without any warning.

-- Yasushi Inoue

To live with purpose means to live each day with clarity.

-- Ryotaro Shiba