Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.

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

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.