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

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.

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

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Know yourself as you are – particles of start-dust moving through the eternal ocean of time, trying to make whatever little difference you can.

To sulk is to create a noise

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.

I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre. If she didn't exist I'd have to invent her.

Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall

Who and where you look is an indicator of who and what you know.

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.