Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.

People who really have Ki don't feel it because everything happens naturally within them.

Aikido chagnes constantly. What do not change are the principles.

One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.

Ki is within us. There is Ki everywhere, either we know how to use it or we don't.

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.

Me as a woman liking myself, is an act of social defiance!

I am deeply in love with my life. With profound gratitude, I love and enjoy everything around me.

The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving.

You are someone worth loving

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

Thinking is no more than a tiny aspect of the totality of consciousness, the totality of who you are.

The sort of morality which the priests inculcate is a very subtle policy, far finer than the politicians', and the world is very successfully ruled by them as the policemen.

You must have respect, which is a part of love, for those under your supervision. Then they will do what you ask and more.

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.