Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Know or listen to those who know.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Who seeks shall find.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
After a storm comes a calm.
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.