“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.”

“Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.”

“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”

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

“Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.”

“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image”

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