And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Work is love made visible.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

男の修行とは、苦しいことを笑ってすることだ

-- Isoroku Yamamoto

A single arrow is easily broken, but a bundle of arrows cannot be broken.

-- Genghis Khan

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

-- Edgar Allan Poe

A vague anxiety.

-- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

The history of humanity is also a history of excavating hidden facts.

-- Seichō Matsumoto

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

-- Ernest Hemingway