Life is like a long journey carrying a heavy burden. Never hurry.

If the cuckoo will not sing, wait until it does.

不自由を常と思えば不足なし。

Cultivate both the literary and martial arts.

-- The man who invented the Sengoku period's model of conquest

I was originally a commoner, tilling the fields at Nanyang.

-- The legendary chancellor and military strategist of the Shu Han kingdom during China's Three Kingdoms period

I would rather save one citizen than destroy a thousand enemies.

-- The Roman general who defeated Hannibal at Zama

Let the boy win his spurs.

-- The greatest English military commander of the Hun

In God's name, the soldiers will fight and God will give the victory.

-- The peasant girl who reversed France's fortunes in the Hundred Years' War and was burned at the stake at age nineteen

The whole art of war consists of getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

-- The British general who defeated Napoleon at Water