Only the educated are free.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
It's always too early to quit.
Well done is better than well said.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
I can, therefore I am.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Never complain and never explain.
Who seeks shall find.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
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.