The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

True victory does not come from defeating an enemy, true victory comes from giving love and changing an enemies heart.

A warrior's mission is to foster the success of others.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

Your voice is a very powerful weapon. When you are in tune with the cosmic breath of heaven and earth, your voice produces true sounds. Unify body, mind, and speech, and real techniques will emerge.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

He's completely complicated. And lost. And frustrating. But we do something for each other. . . . We fit. We need each other.

We don't do laundry because that requires a lot of water, and water's at a premium up here. Plus, it'd be pretty complicated, I think, to make a space washer, although I guess you could do it.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

I have got a reputation to protect.

I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.

How immense the high sky is!

I have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards.

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

Angling is an amusement peculiarly adapted to the mild and cultivated scenery of England