I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Be water, my friend.

Cultivate both the literary and martial arts.

-- The man who invented the Sengoku period's model of conquest

He who knows only victory and does not know defeat will suffer for it.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

I would rather save one citizen than destroy a thousand enemies.

-- The Roman general who defeated Hannibal at Zama

Lernen ist erfahren. Alles andere ist nur Information.

-- Hermann Hesse

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

-- Oscar Wilde

There are mysterious victories, but there are no mysterious defeats.

-- Born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1935, Katsuya Nomura