A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

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

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.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.