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

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

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.

If you do something and it saves your life, it was good taijutsu. In a real fight, you aren't worried about what's pretty.

Don't waste your energy in fighting the old. Use it to build the new.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.

The present is passed over in the race for the future; the here is neglected in favor of the there. Enjoy the moment, even if it means merely a walk in the country.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

I don´t know where I´m going, only God knows where I´ve been.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

I'm obsessed with food!

I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.