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

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.

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.

No matter how strong the rival, the just will always win.

Be a leader with exceptional qualities, not deceptive qualities”.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things man will not find peace.

I believe it is peace in our time.

I'm making the comeback of the century.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write it and it was overdue; I don't even remember what day it was.

It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.

I think that a lot of exciting elements are finding a place where a film is happily, truly about something.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!