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

In this uncertain world, we cannot know what tomorrow brings.

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

A human life of fifty years, compared to the span beneath heaven, is nothing but a dream, an illusion.

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

One gun that hits with every shot can match a hundred guns that hit one in a hundred.

-- The admiral who destroyed the Russian Baltic Fleet at the Battle of Tsushima

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

Come and take them.

-- The Spartan king who led 300 warriors in a suicidal last stand at Thermopylae

Act, and God will act.

-- The peasant girl who reversed France's fortunes in the Hundred Years' War and was burned at the stake at age nineteen