If you want to be happy, be.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

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

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

山の動く日来る

-- Akiko Yosano

I contain multitudes.

-- Walt Whitman

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself.

-- Walt Whitman

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

-- Oscar Wilde