Without tools, nothing can be done; and tools are needed to make tools.

I had gone to take a walk on a fine Sabbath afternoon... when the idea came into my mind that, as steam was an elastic body, it would rush into a vacuum, and if a communication were made between the cylinder and an exhausted vessel, it would rush into it and might be there condensed without cooling the cylinder.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

-- Thomas Edison

I shall dedicate myself utterly, giving everything until death claims me.

-- Zhuge Liang

There is no such thing as a perfect sentence. Just as there is no such thing as perfect despair.

-- Yukio Mishima

It is wrong to say women cannot do sport.

-- Kinue Hitomi

体が続く限り走り続ける

-- Kinue Hitomi

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

-- Roberto Clemente