The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal.

Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.

Do not fight with the strength, absorb it, and it flows, use it.

Greet what arrives, escort what leaves and rush upon loss of contact

There is no difference in who started to study first; the one who achieves accomplishment is first.

It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.

Successful self-actualization can prevent inferiority complexes

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

Do you think we can just take it on faith right now that I want you, you want me, and we'll figure out the happy ending part later?

She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you and anything that is ever going to happen to you is just a thought.

I consider myself a bassist first.

Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking

He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.