Every person's life is a journey toward himself.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

One need not be afraid of anyone. If one fears someone, it is because one has given that person power over oneself.

Cultivate both the literary and martial arts.

-- The man who invented the Sengoku period's model of conquest

He who knows only victory and does not know defeat will suffer for it.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

I would rather save one citizen than destroy a thousand enemies.

-- The Roman general who defeated Hannibal at Zama

He who reads much and walks much, sees much and knows much.

-- Miguel de Cervantes

Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.

-- Dante Alighieri

If in the first act you have a gun hanging on the wall, then in the last act it must fire.

-- Anton Chekhov