The most important are the eyes. In a fight if you look down out of fear you'll certainly be defeated

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.

Love yourself and that is all the love you need.

Don't let hard lessons harden your heart.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

Human beings cannot endure the geological chaos they encounter under the soil of their own gardens.

Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

The future is not Google-able.