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

If you want to be happy, be.

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

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

-- Mōri Motonari

A million hearts as one.

-- Mōri Motonari

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

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

-- Takeda Shingen

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