A life has many crossings. Make them like a good captain.

The source

"A life has many crossings. Make them like a good captain." Miyamoto Musashi said it in The Book of Five Rings, Fire (Crossing the Ford). Translated from the original Japanese by Spartan Surfers.

"人間の世を渡るにも、一代の內にはとをこすと云所多かるべし ... よき船頭の海路を越と同じ"

Original Japanese, The Book of Five Rings, Fire (Crossing the Ford). Japanese: Miyamoto Musashi (Kinkodo, 1909), NDL digital text.

Who said it

Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584–1645). Undefeated swordsman who wrote The Book of Five Rings in a cave a few weeks before he died.

Questions

Who said "A life has many crossings. Make them like a good captain."?

Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584–1645). Source: The Book of Five Rings, Fire (Crossing the Ford).

What is the original Japanese?

人間の世を渡るにも、一代の內にはとをこすと云所多かるべし ... よき船頭の海路を越と同じ. Translated from the original Japanese by Spartan Surfers.