The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Never complain and never explain.
It's always too early to quit.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Wherever you are - be all there.
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.