“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”

“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”

“The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition”

“The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.”

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

“...if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

“...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its roots in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone and we are not alone when we imitate. It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.”