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

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.

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.

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

Soon we shall discover that the temple of all humanity is nothing less that the Temple of the Living God!" ~ Chapter One, "The Awakening" ~ Discovering the Bliss of your True Divine Reality

My hands are dying.

I have an abacus at home.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.

I think it is easy for people to build up an image of what I'm about. I consider myself quite a nice chappy really. I'm decent to people, I stay in and listen to Radio 4.

The sole difference between myself and a madman is the fact that I am not mad.

Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.

Making a movie is like a chess game. It's about constantly changing patterns, adapting to new things. It's not just black and white, as you know.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

Young leaves The sound of a waterfall Heard from far and near.