"It is the life of perfection which seems to be incomplete, and of fullness which seems to be empty."

"When there is a ‘Way’, therein lies the limitation. And when there is a circumference, it traps."

"Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity."

"The possession of anything begins in the mind."

"You will never get any more out of life than you expect."

"To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way."

"The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action, and more importantly, his thinking, become mechanical."

"All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."

"Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own."

"Be happy, but never satisfied."

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire."

"Art is the expression of the soul."

"Obey the principles without being bound by them."

"Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier."