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.

Your state of mind is 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.

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

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

To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.

When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.