Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
Greet what arrives, escort what leaves and rush upon loss of contact
We all have inner demons to fight, we call these demons, fear and hatred and anger. If you do not conquer them then a life of one hundred years is a tragedy. If you do, then a life of a single day can be a triumph.
Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.
Do not fight with the strength, absorb it, and it flows, use it.
There is no difference in who started to study first; the one who achieves accomplishment is first.
It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.
There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.
And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that’s my opinion, expressed as politely as possible.
The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's a place of revelation and isolation. Your form, your body, your writing is your confinement.
America is the greatest country on Earth. But because of some of the mistakes that have been made, we, I think, are going to have a lot of work to do in the next administration to restore that sense that America is that shining beacon on a hill.