Personal greed and egoism are things that cause human beings to forget respect for others and to violate rules that have been established for the sake of peace and friendship.

One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.

Subjecting yourself to vigourous training is more for the sake of forging a resolute spirit that can vanquish the self than it is for developing a strong body.

Come ye trials and challanges; come life's big waves, for I am ready?

Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.

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

If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.