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.

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.

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS... IN THE TERROR FOREST! WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!

I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me.

I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never.

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

Let's all start wearing bolo ties, and when they become hip again, we'll all say we were kidding.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me.

The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

The intent of sincere humanitarians is to do good to society, just as the intent of the child who kills a bird by to much fondling is to do good to the bird.