What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing