It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticatedcommunication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.

There is a slogan written in the entrance gate of all schools in JAPAN ."IF U CANNOT DO, NO OTHER HUMAN IN THE WORLD CAN DO IT".Believe in YOURSELF.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.