Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

A samurai will use a toothpick even though he has not eaten. Inside the skin of a dog, outside the hide of a tiger.

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

Be true to the thought of the moment and avoid distraction. Other than continuing to exert yourself, enter into nothing else, but go to the extent of living single thought by single thought.

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

Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength; to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind... then the Great Way is right before your eyes.

By being impatient, matters are damaged and great works cannot be done