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

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

Umami is not a complex taste. It is a simple one.

-- Kikunae Ikeda

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

-- Horatio Nelson

To know sufficiency is itself happiness.

-- Mori Ōgai

The greatness of human beings lies in our ability to change ourselves through our own will.

-- Ryōtarō Shiba

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

-- Alexandre Dumas