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.

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.

I have a deep and profound mistrust of all politicians.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

"a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" "...this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

You can bloom wherever you're planted, if you put enough effort into it.

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals.

What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.