Never complain and never explain.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
It's always too early to quit.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
You never know what motivates you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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.