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

"It is not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential."

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a form of death."

"The difference between the master and the novice is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried."

"The essence of fighting is the art of moving."