Remember that you must always have a deep regard for courtesy, and you must be respectful and obedient toward your seniors.

Apply the way of karate to all things. Therein lies its beauty.

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 you look at life think in terms of karate. But remember that karate is not only karate -- it is life.

Inner mental technique is more important than the physical one.

Karate is a technique that permits one to defend himself with his bare hands and fists without weapons.

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.