Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.

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

The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.