All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.

You can only fight the way you practice

Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.

Unless you really understand others, you can hardly attain your own self-understanding.

This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon as yet undrawn.

In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.