Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.

If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.

One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.

I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.

Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.

One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.

The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

One living daily in the Way carries their head low and their eyes high; reserved in speech and possessing a kind heart, they steadfastly continue in their training efforts.

No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.

The Bible, divine wisdom.

Percival pinched his lips, sending his laugh to his eyes.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

We're ganna we like to actually um, kidnap them in a van, and tie them up, and leave them somewhere dangerous...that's the SUPRISE!

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.

The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very violent labor history, much worse than in Europe.

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

Financial planning is like navigation. If you know where you are and where you want to go, navigation isn't such a great problem. It's when you don't know the two points that it's difficult.