As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body — with a lot of deception in between.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationships to man. He then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.