Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Your state of mind is everything.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its root in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.

Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.