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

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.

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.

The best part of my life is, My death will not cause pain for anyone.

You have not accomplished anything significant if no one envies you.

This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

Why is it, little Shadowhunter, that your angels are so cold and without mercy? Why do they break that which will not obey them?

I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

All the songs are pieces to the puzzle. They each represent something different. So it's really difficult to say one song represents the album.

If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

You can't recover from what you do not understand.

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.