Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it.

There is no medicine that cures what happiness cannot.

The memory of the heart eliminates bad memories and magnifies the good ones.

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

-- Zeno of Citium

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

-- Date Masamune

I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden. Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

Patience is the foundation of lasting peace. Consider anger your enemy.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu

Without detachment, one cannot clarify purpose; without tranquility, one cannot reach far.

-- Zhuge Liang