If you want to be happy, be.

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

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

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

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

Life is like a long journey carrying a heavy burden. Never hurry.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

If the cuckoo will not sing, wait until it does.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate