Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you think you can do it, you can.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Well done is better than well said.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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.