Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

-- Zeno of Citium

Rise early in the morning, retire early at night.

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

Life is like a long journey carrying a heavy burden. Never hurry.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

If you do not know you may fall halfway through your work, you will not fall halfway through.

-- The visionary who brokered the alliance that overthrew Japan's feudal government and launched the country into modernity

To achieve the objective, do not be choosy about methods.

-- 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