Life is too long to do nothing, yet too short to accomplish something.

The cowardly fear of exposing one's lack of talent, and the terror that even after grinding effort, one's innate insufficiency might become all the more apparent.

A cowardly pride and an arrogant sense of shame.

In this uncertain world, we cannot know what tomorrow brings.

-- Called 'the greatest warrior in Japan' by his enem

There is nothing to be done about it.

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- The 'Hegemon-King of Western Chu' whose raw military genius made him the most feared commander of ancient China's civil wars

Heaven destroys me — it is not a failure of warfare.

-- The 'Hegemon-King of Western Chu' whose raw military genius made him the most feared commander of ancient China's civil wars

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

-- The Byzantine Empire's greatest general

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

-- William Shakespeare