The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

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

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

There are lots of guys around the world that are lazy. They have big fat guts. They talk about chi power and things they can do, but don't believe it.

All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.