You must be on your toes constantly, yet be relaxed.

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.

People who make some other person part of their job are dangerous.

Restraining prayer we cease to fight Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

Virtues, of ... Moderation: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

We are at our finest when we take care of each other.

I hope I die before I get old.

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.