If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high... Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Fortune lies in heaven. Armor lies in the heart. Achievement lies in the legs.

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

In war, a victory of sixty percent is the best. Total victory breeds complacency.

-- The 'Tiger of Kai' who transformed his landlocked mountain domain into one of Sengoku Japan's most formidable military powers

The greatest warrior in Japan.

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

This man might be the one to seize the realm.

-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi's chief strategist and the architect of his greatest victories

I do not mind hardship — only let it be hardship that matters.

-- The radical samurai who created Japan's first modern militia and ignited the revolution that ended feudal rule

Making this uninteresting world interesting.

-- The radical samurai who created Japan's first modern militia and ignited the revolution that ended feudal rule