Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it.

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.

I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.