Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.

When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.

Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.

Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

Right on the other side of our fears resides hope and happiness. We get stuck in our lives afraid to walk over there when it’s a much kinder place.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf

Speak, move, act in peace.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.

If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free