Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

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.

Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.