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

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

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

Fortune lies in heaven. Armor lies in the heart. Achievement lies in the legs.

-- The 'Dragon of Echigo' — a Sengoku-era warlord whose devotion to righteous warfare and Buddhist faith made him Japan's most paradoxical military figure

The greatest warrior in Japan.

-- Called 'the greatest warrior in Japan' by his enem

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

Come and take them.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

Act, and God will act.

-- The peasant girl who reversed France's fortunes in the Hundred Years' War and was burned at the stake at age nineteen

In God's name, the soldiers will fight and God will give the victory.

-- The peasant girl who reversed France's fortunes in the Hundred Years' War and was burned at the stake at age nineteen