I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait and hope.

I fight my enemies with swords, not with salt.

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

Can you call yourself human if you forget your debts of loyalty and pursue only selfish gain?

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

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

A general's greatest weapon is the trust of his soldiers.

-- The Byzantine Empire's greatest general

Happiness may be something like gold dust sinking to the bottom of a river of sorrow, faintly glimmering.

-- Osamu Dazai

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.

-- Jane Austen