You are not just fighting one opponent. You are fighting the unknown.

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 butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.

If America puts the enmity aside, if it initiates good will, and if it compensates for the past, the future situation between the United States and Iran will change.

As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.

When I see some of the people who are glorified in magazines these days - who are so thin it's bordering on sickness - I just feel exhausted.

The mathematical forms of order which the mind of a physicist manipulates coincides "miraculously" with experimental measurements.

If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

I was born with a serious spiritual consciousness and for many years studied different paths.

But I miss screamin' and fightin' And kissin' in the rain And it's two a.m. and I'm cursin' your name You're so in love that you act insane And that's the way I loved you.