Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

When weak or injured always continue training as you should always be able to adapt in any condition.

Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.

Always be able to kill your students

The first priority to the ninja is to win without fighting.

Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.

Any place we can breathe, we can do Ninjutsu.

No more talk. I'm sick of people talking. Train.

You've got to learn to utilize the space (between you and your opponent). Distancing is very important.

You are not punching them; it is your going into kamae that punches them.

Nature is your friend; it helps you to win. Your enemy will have unnatural movement, therefore you will be able to know what he is going to do before he does it.

The people on this planet who end up doing nothing are those who never realize they can't do everything.

Every so often, in the midst of chaos, you come across an amazing, inexplicable instance of civic responsibility. Maybe the last shred of faith people have is in their firemen.

Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.

Outside, the September air was enticingly fragrant, yellow with pollen and rich, lemony sunlight.

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

If our failure to consistently worship the true God is the key feature of sin, we are sinners all.

Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.