“For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.”

“The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”

“Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.”

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

“Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”

“To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.”