A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.

Willing is not enough, one must apply.

The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.

Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up.

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.