Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.

Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves

Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationships to man. He then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.