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“In the changing of the times,” Abe wrote to one of his students, “they were like autumn lightning, a thing out of season, an empty promise of rain that would fall unheeded on fields already bare.”
― Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai
― Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai
“To be firm without a complementary flexibility is to be a corpse. Conservative self-confidence without a liberal broad-mindedness becomes chauvinism, pedantry.”
― Persimmon Wind: A Martial Artist's Journey in Japan
― Persimmon Wind: A Martial Artist's Journey in Japan
“If wronged once, always forgive. Twice, forgive again, keeping in mind that even a repentant man can repeat a mistake. “ Only after two transgressions, Munenori advised, should punitive action be taken.”
― Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai
― Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai
“Rule #9: You're unlikely to regret much of what you don't say.”
― Chinese Cooking For Diamond Thieves: A Hilarious Suspense Thriller Where Romance Meets Martial Arts
― Chinese Cooking For Diamond Thieves: A Hilarious Suspense Thriller Where Romance Meets Martial Arts
“Rule #72: Never depend upon luck, but don’t ignore how really valuable it is.”
― Chinese Cooking For Diamond Thieves
― Chinese Cooking For Diamond Thieves
“Adherence to established values, an affinity to creativity. Perseverance and innovation. The dualities of a hardness like stone and the pliancy of the wind-bent bamboo, these twin qualities flux and twine through the persona of the master and give him the presence and personality by which we know him.”
― Persimmon Wind: A Martial Artist's Journey in Japan
― Persimmon Wind: A Martial Artist's Journey in Japan




