Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.

There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.