Writing is only good for recording names. Swordsmanship defeats one man — that's not worth learning. I want to learn what defeats ten thousand.

Heaven destroys me — it is not a failure of warfare.

書足以記名姓而已。剣一人敵、不足学。学万人敵。

是非に及ばず。

-- Oda Nobunaga

Heaven destroys me — it is not a failure of warfare.

-- Xiang Yu

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

-- Belisarius

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

-- Dante Alighieri

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

-- Hermann Hesse

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry