More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.

The attitude, 'You can win if you want to badly enough,' means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too 'tough' to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner's ideals and dreams.

If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.