If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Great is the victory, but the friendship is all the greater.

If the cuckoo will not sing, kill it.

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

If you do not know you may fall halfway through your work, you will not fall halfway through.

-- The visionary who brokered the alliance that overthrew Japan's feudal government and launched the country into modernity

The ancients said: after victory, tighten the cords of your helmet.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.

-- The Prussian military theorist whose 'On War' became the most influential work of strategic theory in Western history

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

-- The American general who commanded in the Pacific War and oversaw Japan's postwar occupation

The purpose of maintaining military forces for a hundred years is solely to preserve peace.

-- The Japanese admiral who planned the Pearl Harbor attack and commanded the Combined Fleet during the Pacific War's decisive early phase