Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.

All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.

Though methods play an important role in the early stage, the techniques should not be too mechanical, complex or restrictive. If we cling blindly to them, we shall eventually become bound by their limitations. Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques. If somebody attacks you, your response is not Technique No.1, Stance No. 2, Section 4, Paragraph 5. Instead you simply move in like sound and echo, without any deliberation. It is as though when I call you, you answer me, or when I throw you something, you catch it. It's as simple as that - no fuss, no mess.

If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.