Hold on to your life and make it honest and brave.

I want to lead an important life. I want to do it because I was born a human being.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Oh, you crows! Feast away! What a spread! Soup straight from the eye sockets! And thick red sake! But don't have too much Or you'll surely get drunk.

Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!

See, see how the sun has moved onward while we talked. Nothing can stop it in its course. Prayers cannot halt the revolving of nature. It is the same with human life. Victory and defeat are one in the vast stream of life. Victory is the beginning of defeat, and who can rest safely in victory? Impermanence is the nature of all things of this world. Even you will find your ill fortunes too will change. It is easy to understand the impatience of the old, whose days are numbered, but why should you young ones fret when the future is yours?

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.