Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Running water never grows stale.

Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static thing and then invent methods to reach it. ...Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy. When you see that, you will understand that this living thing is also what you are. You cannot express and be alive through static, put-together form, through stylized movement.