It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

Relax and calm your mind. Forget about yourself and follow your opponent's movement.

Do not fight with the strength, absorb it, and it flows, use it.

Greet what arrives, escort what leaves and rush upon loss of contact

There is no difference in who started to study first; the one who achieves accomplishment is first.

The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal.

Students from the same teacher will differ in their skills

A free spirit is the master of its own universe.

Perhaps death is just a big lie.

Ambition is a noble passion which may legitimately take many forms

I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.

Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.

We are all afforded our physical existence so we can learn about ourselves.

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.