In time of grave public crisis, one must have the courage to face a million and one opponents.

You may train for a long time, but if you merely move your hands and feet and jump up and down like a puppet, learning karate is not very different from learning a dance. You will never have reached the heart of the matter; you will have failed to grasp the quintessence of karate-do.

The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants.

In the past, it was expected that about three years were required to learn a single kata, and usually even an expert of considerable skill would only know three, or at most five, kata.

Inner mental technique is more important than the physical one.

What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your 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.