There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

The difference between a good and great officer is about ten seconds.

This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

Success can not be administrated.

The major deterrent to war is in a mans mind.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

You will find that there is no death at all, in the true sense of the word, but everything goes on living, transmuting and becoming perfect according to primitive laws.

Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

The steady state of disks is full.

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent.