Don't pretend to be a great master and don't try to show off your strength.

To practice kata is not to memorize an order. Find the katas that work for you, understand them, digest them & stick with them for life.

One of the most striking features of karate is that it may be engaged in by anybody, young or old, strong or weak, male or female.

There is no place in contemporary Karate-do for different schools. Some instructors, I know, claim to have invented new and unusual kata, and so they arrogate to themselves the right to be called founders of "schools". Indeed, I have heard myself and my colleagues referred to as the Shoto-kan school, but I strongly object to this attempt at classification. My belief is that all these "schools" should be amalgamated into one so that Karate-do may pursue and orderly and useful progress into man's future.

When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die.

When you leave your home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you (it is your behavior that invites trouble from them).

In karate, hitting, thrusting, and kicking are not the only methods, throwing techniques and pressure against joints are included … all these techniques should be studied referring to basic kata