Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Who seeks shall find.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.