If you're going through hell, keep going.
You never know what motivates you.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.