I write songs on guitar and that's about how good of a guitar player I am. I can write songs on it.
Zen is like soap. First you wash with it, and then you wash off the soap.
As a samurai, I must strengthen my character; as a human being I must perfect my spirit
Do not think that this is all there is. More and more wonderful teachings exist.
If you want to obtain the secrets of such wonderful techniques, drill yourself, harden yourself, undergo severe training, abandoned body and mind; follow this course for years and you will naturally reach the profoundest levels. To know if water is hot or cold you must taste it yourself.
The world is wide, full of happenings. Keep this in mind and never believe 'I'm the onlyone who knows. '
Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.
When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.
Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.
Patch is the last person you want to antagoonize. He doesn't hold grudges because the people who cross him tend to disappear quickly.
The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.