'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.

The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.

For something that is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way or a definite path; but not for anything that is moving and living.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?

To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.