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.

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.

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

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

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.

Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you.

Maybe not here and now, but somewhere, someday.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have said: Please be patient. I am working as fast as I can.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.