Small and big

"I am little. But my heart is big." Yoshie Takeshita

Weakness is the best

「自然素材の良さはその弱さにある」　隈研吾

"The best thing about natural materials is the weakness" Kuma Kengo

Victory and defeat

"There's an old saying that victory has 100 fathers
and defeat is an orphan." John F. Kennedy

With the April 15 Bay of Pigs invasion, the CIA hoped to do in Cuba what they had previously achieved in Iran and Guatemala: quietly overthrow a regime they found distasteful. Cuba would go differently. Although Soviet spies had compromised U.S. intelligence, most of the bungling was internal. After one embarrassing week it was over, and several top CIA officials were forced to resign. The Kennedy administration refused to give up. The Cuban Project, launched just months later, allegedly involved the use of combustible cigars and seashells to assassinate Castro. No wonder all these schemes blew up in their face.

恐怖は力なり

「恐怖があれば，強くなれる」　小栗旬

Confidence as your energy

"自信過剰は僕のエネルギー"　熊川哲也

Taking sides

“Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Elie Wiesel

Religious babelization

"If God existed, and if He cared for humankind,
He would never have given us religion." Martin Amis

How true

"If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it." Elmore Leonard

Leonard, the "Dickens of Detroit" whose sharp dialogue has been favorably compared to that of Raymond Chandler, is a screenwriter and Edgar Award-winning novelist who has seen over a dozen of his stories adapted for the silver screen, most notably Get Shorty.

He began his career writing pulp Westerns, including his 1953 3:10 to Yuma, which was made into a classic Western in 1957 and was remade again in 2007.