Failure is the foundation of success. I was prepared to start over thousands of times.

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

A single arrow breaks easily, but three arrows bundled together cannot be broken.

-- Mōri Motonari

A man's training is to do what is hard with a smile.

-- Isoroku Yamamoto

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

-- Kahlil Gibran

Thou shalt not die.

-- Akiko Yosano

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!

-- Jane Austen

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

-- Leo Tolstoy