Judo is the way to the most effective use of both physical and spiritual strength.

It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.

Face your fear, empty yourself, trust your own voice, let go of control, have faith in outcomes, connect with a larger purpose, derive meaning from the struggle.

If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.

Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.

The purpose of the study of judo is to perfect yourself and to contribute to society.

To ask may be but a moment's shame, not to ask and remain ignorant is a lifelong shame.

Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens.

The pine fought the storm and broke. The willow yielded to the wind and snow and did not break. Practice Jiu-Jitsu in just this way.

Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.

Walk a single path, become neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat.

Anyone who is swift to blame someone else has simply ran out of ideas.brimekonsult

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one.

Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

Science and knowledge, especially that of philosophy, came from the Arabs into the West.

Marry your daughters betimes, lest they marry themselves.

The best way to get around in New York is to be both rich and patient.

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.