Know or listen to those who know.
You never know what motivates you.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Leap, and the net will appear.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Only the educated are free.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.