Father, Mother, Kokichi is completely exhausted and can no longer run. Please forgive me.

父上様、母上様、三日とろろ美味しゅうございました。

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

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

-- The peasant who became ruler of all Japan

I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

-- The dominant warlord of China's Three Kingdoms era

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

-- The British prime minister whose leadership during World War II embodied national defiance against Nazi Germany

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

-- Virginia Woolf