A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

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

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

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.