In football, there are no miracles. The goalkeeper's skill is the sum of his training.

The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only comparable to the joy of a good save.

Without first establishing internal governance, there can be no external campaigns.

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

I shall dedicate myself utterly, giving everything until death claims me.

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

Mountains, rivers, trees — all turned desolate. For ten miles, the wind carries the stench of a fresh battlefield.

-- The Japanese general whose siege of Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War became synonymous with both the terrible cost of modern warfare and the samurai ideal of duty unto death

Either explode in silence, or perish in silence.

-- Lu Xun

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

-- Leo Tolstoy

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

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery