The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

Never promise more than you can perform.

Always expect that something beautiful and wonderful will happen to fill life with beauty.

When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings.

I wanna be drunk when I wake up, on the right side of the wrong bed.

And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking. You can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart

How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.

I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's [Castro], there is no culture of politics.

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

Even in the forty years that I have been practicing Karate, the changes have been many. It would be interesting to be able to go back in time, to the point when the kata were created, and study them.

My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.