As far as possible, I want nothing more than to don my training gi and teach Karate.

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.

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

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.

You become the master of what you master.

Neither wit nor beauty nor riches can conquer misery, only kindness can.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

I know life is hard but we can always find hope in music and wash away our tears

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced.