The key to good technique is to keep your hands, feet, and hips straight and centered. If you are centered, you can move freely.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

True victory does not come from defeating an enemy, true victory comes from giving love and changing an enemies heart.

A warrior's mission is to foster the success of others.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

Your voice is a very powerful weapon. When you are in tune with the cosmic breath of heaven and earth, your voice produces true sounds. Unify body, mind, and speech, and real techniques will emerge.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

It's taken me a long time to appreciate that my intelligence is greater than what I was told and that I am very creative, and I see in pictures.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.