I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his own strength. He scarcely uses his own strength in the greatest emergency. Then what does he use? Simply the strength of his antagonist. The force of the enemy is the only means by which that enemy is overcome.

One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

The more you wish to be, the wiser you are; while the wish to have is apt to be foolish in proportion to its largeness.