My character was shaped by my grandfather from the age of three.

I want to adorn the neck of every woman in the world with pearls.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

It is precisely in failure that we find the seeds of the next success.

-- Takamine Jōkichi

This war was begun unavoidably in self-defense, and Japan, united under the unbroken imperial line, is resolved to fight to the last man.

-- Takahashi Korekiyo

In war, a victory of sixty percent is the best. Total victory breeds complacency.

-- 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

He who knows only victory and does not know defeat will suffer for it.

-- Tokugawa Ieyasu