Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.