People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.

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!

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

Pain is weakness leaving your body.

Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life.

The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition