Who seeks shall find.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
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.