I can, therefore I am.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Never complain and never explain.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
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.