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

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 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.

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.

My powers of persuasion are only as strong as the bullshit I have to back it up.- Charley Davidson

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared.

I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.

If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.

I believe in the dignity of every person. I believe that while we are all free to practice our religion, and to hold whatever religious beliefs we choose.

I've always been rapping before I was making money off of it. Before I made a profit, I had always been rapping.

The horse is an archetypal symbol which will always find ways to stir up deep and moving ancestral memories in every human being.