The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.

One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.

I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.

Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.

One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.

The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.

Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large.

One living daily in the Way carries their head low and their eyes high; reserved in speech and possessing a kind heart, they steadfastly continue in their training efforts.

Creativity is choice-making.

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

Tell me and I'll forget. Show me and I may not remember. Involve me and I'll understand.

I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time.

Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

My goal is to play hard and give the city a chance for a championship.

We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.