-What does it feel like, having your own death right before your eyes? That grand kaleidoscope glimpsed in the moments before death... What could be flashing through that perfect mind of yours?

-The past you've lost will never come back. I myself have made so many mistakes... But we can learn from the past so we don't repeat it.

-If I wasn't prepared to be flexible as the situations demands, I wouldn't have become a teacher.

-Broadly speaking, there are two reasons a person feels the desire to teach something: Either he wants to pass on his successes or he wants to pass on his failures.


-All of the connections we encounter in this world serve as teachers who nurture us.

-Those who can't do what they have to when the time comes for action will find their presence fading in our classroom. An assassin who neglects to sharpen his blade is no assassin at all. He's just a boastful brat swinging around a rusty sword.


-The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.

-Please remember that there are times to take someone's hand and lead them along... But also times when you must be stern and let them fend for themselves.

-Whether a fish lives in a clear stream or a water ditch, so long as it continues swimming forward, it will grow up beautifully.