Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Know or listen to those who know.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.