In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.

My Way is the Way of Karate, which is also the Way of humanity, and which is consequently related to the Way of Heaven.

If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan

If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.

Until the day I die, I never want to be separated from my dogi; I never want to cease my training efforts in the dojo.