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

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

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

Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.

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

I am not perfect and I don't pretend to be. My brand is about dealing with life after it happens and not sugar coating the fact that I'm a human who makes mistakes.

love canembellish its beginningsing its blossomingand engrave its eternitiesbut can never explain its loss.

I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste, ” I said.

My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.

If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.

Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.

Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably made

Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment].