準備の足りない冒険は無謀であり、冒険ではない

ぼくには人に誇れるような学歴も才能もない。だけど、一つだけ誇れるものがある。それは、やろうと思ったことは必ずやるということだ

A million hearts as one.

-- A Sengoku-era daimyo who transformed a single prov

Without first establishing internal governance, there can be no external campaigns.

-- The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

-- America's most aggressive World War II general, whose Third Army's lightning advance across France in 1944 demonstrated that speed and audacity in exploitation could collapse enemy resistance faster than methodical advance (1885-1945). Patton believed he

Mountains, rivers, trees — all turned desolate. For ten miles, the wind carries the stench of a fresh battlefield.

-- The Japanese general whose siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War became synonymous with both the terrible cost of modern warfare and the samurai ideal of duty unto death

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

-- Leo Tolstoy

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery