If you can dream it, you can do it.
You never know what motivates you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Well done is better than well said.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.