The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere.

Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.