Aikido chagnes constantly. What do not change are the principles.

People who really have Ki don't feel it because everything happens naturally within them.

Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.

One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.

Ki is within us. There is Ki everywhere, either we know how to use it or we don't.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

I’m a Congressman, and can do whatever I want

My brother brought home 'At San Quentin' when I was about 7, and we played it over and over again.

The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.

You have your opinion, I have mine, and it takes all kinds of nuts and dips to make a party, right?

Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.

Love is listening when they are ready to talk--midnight, 6:00 A.M. on their way to seminary, or when you're busy with your urgencies.

Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.