No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.
The plan is not what you think.
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.
Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.
I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything.
The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.
Religion is not a result of something that you practice. Religion enters in you any moment you relax. Religion is a flowering of relaxation, not a result of practicing. Remember the difference because when you practice you become more tense.
A man is known by the silence he keeps.
It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.