Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.

Do not let your opponent see your spirit

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

A bullet from a gun does not make a distinction between practice and combat. You are training to be one and the same way in your life

As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower... both those teaching and those learning are concerned with colouring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower.

Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things