Quotes from Takashi Matsuoka

The katana has been the weapon of the samurai since time immemorial. Consider the inner meaning. Our blade is honed only on a single edge. Why? It is because with the dull edge against our flesh, the katana becomes our shield. This cannot happen with a two-edged sword, One day, in the midst of a melee, you may owe your life to the dull edge rather than the sharp one. Let this contrast remind you that attack and defense are one.

We live in a world of myriad conflicting loyalties. It is not purity, but the nature of the balance we achieve that displays our true character.

Love tends to simplify the most complex and difficult of situations.

Perhaps it wasn't so important to understand after all. Perhaps what was most important was to care.

Shall we surrender?' he said mildly. 'I think we should. After all we outnumber him only fifteen to one, we have only muskets to oppose his bow, and we are surrounded. Or at least I think we are. How is it that one man can surround fifteen? Please clear up this mystery for me.

The discipline of war was a near neighbor to the abandon of love.

En verdes pastos me hará descansar; junto a tranquilas aguas me conducirá. Confortará mi alma; me guiará por sendas de justicia por amor a Su nombre.

No todas las batallas se ganan avanzando. No todas las retiradas son derrotas. Avanzar es una estrategia. Retirarse es también una estrategia. Una retirada debe realizarse

Hypocrisy was the essential nature of all modes of human control. The brilliant few did as they wished, while convincing the gullible many to follow rules they themselves disdained.