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.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart.

It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

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

One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.

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.