I cannot decide whether I was well named or not. Many a time the path has gleamed bright for me, and just as often it has been dark and bitter indeed.

Thanks, King.

Do not buy fertile fields for your children and grandchildren.

-- The charismatic giant who led Japan's Meiji Restoration through force of personality and moral authority

Governance must be clean and transparent.

-- The ruthlessly effective architect of modern Japan who built the Meiji state's institutions while his more charismatic peers took the glory

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it.

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Writing is the work above all other work.

-- Ichiyo Higuchi

Have you never touched this soft skin, flushed with hot blood? How lonely you must be, preaching the Way.

-- Akiko Yosano

I always loved running - it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power.

-- Born in Alabama in 1913