I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.

When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.

The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.