Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

A dojo [pracice hall] is a miniature cosmos where we make contact with ourselves - our fears, anxieties, reactions, and habits. It is an arena of confined conflict where we confront an opponent who is not an opponent but rather a partner engaged in helping us understand ourselves more fully.

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.

When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.