It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead

The deepest love is often hidden.

There are few people who will make mistakes with fire after having once been burned.

The Four Oaths: Never be late with respect to the way of the warrior; be useful to the lord; be respectful to your parents; get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of man.

Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.