Act, and God will act.

In God's name, the soldiers will fight and God will give the victory.

If the cuckoo will not sing, kill it.

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

A man who wants neither life, nor fame, nor rank, nor money — such a man is the hardest to deal with.

-- The charismatic giant who led Japan's Meiji Restoration through force of personality and moral authority

Let the world say what it will about me. Only I know what I must do.

-- The visionary who brokered the alliance that overthrew Japan's feudal government and launched the country into modernity

I would sell London if I could find a buyer.

-- The Lionheart — England's warrior-king who spent his reign on crusade and battlefield rather than in governance

Untie him and let him go free.

-- The Lionheart — England's warrior-king who spent his reign on crusade and battlefield rather than in governance

I would do it all again. I could not live with myself otherwise.

-- Born in Prague in 1942, Vera Caslavska won three gold medals at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and