“Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.”

“One who understands others has knowledge; one who understands himself has wisdom. Mastering others requires force; mastering the self needs strength.”

“Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

“It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.”

“My belief is to achieve success in any scheme one has to make oneself master of that scheme, know it inside and out, know every detail.”

“A master can teach many things. But the most important lesson for a ninja is to learn oneself.”