Miyamoto Musashi

You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing that the enemy does not expect.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men.

No man is invincible, and therefore no man can fully understand that which would make him invincible.

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.

This is truth: When you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon as yet undrawn.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

The sword has to be more than a simple weapon; it has to be an answer to life's questions.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

You can abandon your own body but never let go of your honor.

Do nothing which is of no use.

There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.