There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.

When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again.

In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.

If one is but secure at the foundation, he will not be pained by departure from minor details or affairs that are contrary to expectation. But in the end, the details of a matter are important. The right and wrong of one's way of doing things are found in trivial matters.

To desire with one’s very soul every second of every day to accomplish one’s aim.

Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.