To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Well done is better than well said.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Only the educated are free.
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.