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

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

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

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

Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills

...but fear of death gives us strength.

Even in that 'now' moment at which you feel you reach some form of "enlightenment", it will still be a 'moment'. There will still be more life afterward, and changes will still occur.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.

I love my fans so much! I know I say it all the time, but I really appreciate all the things they have done for me.

Presentation, not reference.

Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

Government should exist in order to help fortify the country and make those who are in need better able to meet their own.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.