Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

If the cuckoo will not sing, kill it.

-- The revolutionary warlord who dismantled feudal Japan's medieval order and launched the country toward unification

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

I was originally a commoner, tilling the fields at Nanyang.

-- The legendary chancellor and military strategist of the Shu Han kingdom during China's Three Kingdoms period

Let the boy win his spurs.

-- The greatest English military commander of the Hun

Audacity, audacity, always audacity!

-- The Prussian king whose oblique order and disciplined army made a small northern kingdom into a European great power

War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.

-- The Prussian military theorist whose 'On War' became the most influential work of strategic theory in Western history