I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

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

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.

Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick no longer a kick. Now that I've understood the art, a punch is just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. The height of cultivation is really nothing special. It is merely simplicity; the ability to express the utmost with the minimum.