In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.

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.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'

God leads every soul by a separate path.

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

I go to bed with men, not boys.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.

When the time is gone, you can never get it back.

There have always been grievances and youth has always been the agitator.