Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

My predecessors ruled but I know nothing about them, and so I do what I do that people may remember me.

-- Mansa Musa

Nothing is more impossible than what Napoleon faced.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

Gentlemen, life is short. Never waste your mind on trivial matters. Study much, work much, think much, laugh much.

-- Ōkuma Shigenobu

A nation's hundred-year plan rests on education.

-- Itō Hirobumi

There can be no diplomacy without the power to defend oneself.

-- Shigeru Yoshida

If you want new ideas, read old books.

-- Ivan Pavlov