He who cannot govern himself cannot govern others.

The greatest joy of a conqueror is to drive his enemies before him, to seize their horses and treasure, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

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

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

-- Zeno of Citium

He who plans more, wins. He who plans less, loses.

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

A million hearts as one.

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

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

-- The 'One-Eyed Dragon' of northern Japan who carved

Swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, immovable as the mountain.

-- The 'Tiger of Kai' who transformed his landlocked mountain domain into one of Sengoku Japan's most formidable military powers

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

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan