When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style.

My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.

Boards don't hit back.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own.

Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.