If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

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.

The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

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.

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.