The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.