In this human world, the path is never singular. There are always multiple paths.

To know sufficiency is itself happiness.

I wish to die as Mori Rintaro, a man of Iwami.

We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

-- Zeno of Citium

Excess benevolence becomes weakness. Excess righteousness becomes rigidity.

-- The 'One-Eyed Dragon' of northern Japan who carved

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

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

A human life of fifty years, compared to the span beneath heaven, is nothing but a dream, an illusion.

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

I came as dew, I vanish as dew — all that I was, all I achieved at Naniwa, is a dream within a dream.

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

If the cuckoo will not sing, I shall make it want to sing.

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan