Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

---

Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense. - Isoroku Yamamoto

---

In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

---

Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House. - Isoroku Yamamoto

---

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

---

Although a precise outlook on the international situation is hard for anyone to make, it is needless to say that now the time has come for the Navy, especially the Combined Fleet, to devote itself seriously to war preparations, training, and operational plans with a firm determination that a conflict with the U.S. and Great Britain is inevitable. -Isoroku Yamamoto

---

There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

---

In order to write about life first you must live it.- Ernest Hemingway

---

Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought. — Joe Biden

---

How I learned to love the New World Order. — Joe Biden

---