Throughout your life advance daily, becoming more skillful than yesterday, more skillful than today. This is never-ending.

Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.

Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.

No matter if the enemy has thousands of men, there is fulfillment in simply standing them off and being determined to cut them all down, starting from one end.

Although this may be a most difficult thing, if one will do it, it can be done. There is nothing that one should suppose cannot be done.

Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

though money is a fine servant, as a god, it does seem to develop all the evil qualities of the slave seated between the cherubim.

No one's going to go see the story of Othello going to get a peaceful divorce.

You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.

The perpetual struggle for room and food.