“Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.”

To change with change is the changeless state.

In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

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

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

Each moment that passes changes you. You can’t even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Learning is a constant process of discovery – a process without end.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.

I’m surprised that I’ve survived my own dysfunction, really.

All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

There’s so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don’t achieve that in boxing, you’re nothing.

When one guy is doing good, it makes all the others want to achieve greatness.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.