Know or listen to those who know.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Well done is better than well said.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
I can, therefore I am.
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.