Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques.

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.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

Death only comes when a being has served its purpose. From a narrow perspective, that purpose may not be clear, but in the grand scheme of things, it makes perfect sense.

Marriage is not a sales deal and you don't have to close it as fast as you can.

I never thought I'd get a chance to do what I'm doing. It's such a dream.

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine.

Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

In spite of what Draco is like, I really like school, and I miss it a lot when I'm filming. I've a fair idea what I want to do for my GCSEs, I will definitely be doing music.