Enemies were teachers in disguise..

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure..

it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor..

Hold on to your life and make it honest and brave..

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won..

Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures..

It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world..

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind..

I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself..

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within..

Fighting isn't all there is to the Art of War. The men who think that way, and are satisfied to have food to eat and a place to sleep, are mere vagab….

Great character is forged through hardships..

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying..

There's not much benefit in attacking an empty house..

The world is always full of the sound of waves. The little fishes, abandoning themselves to the waves, dance and sing and play, but who knows the he….

Every act is an expression of one's self..

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise..

I wouldn't say Musashi is ordinary. But he is. That's what's extraordinary about him. He is not content to rely on whatever natural gifts he may have….

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired..

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encou….

The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid..