The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

Courage is grace under pressure.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

In war, a victory of sixty percent is the best. Total victory breeds complacency.

-- The 'Tiger of Kai' who transformed his landlocked mountain domain into one of Sengoku Japan's most formidable military powers

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

-- The British general who defeated Napoleon at Water

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

-- George Orwell

History is a chain of wills attempting to transmit something.

-- Yasushi Inoue

Beauty is always discovered in the actualities of living.

-- Junichiro Tanizaki

Within the motive for crime lies society's contradiction.

-- Seicho Matsumoto