Never complain and never explain.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Who seeks shall find.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Well done is better than well said.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.