Every act is an expression of one's self.

I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself.

it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

To Kiyomori each stall, each soul here seemed borne under by the crushing weight of the world; everyone here was a pitiful weed, trodden underfoot -- a conglomeration of human lives putting down roots in this slime, living and letting live in the struggle to survive; and he was stirred by the fearful and magnificent courage communicated by the scene.

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.

Enemies were teachers in disguise.