Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
It's always too early to quit.
Well done is better than well said.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Who seeks shall find.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
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.