The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere

I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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