Bruce Lee

The less confident we are in ourselves, the less we are in touch with ourselves and the world, the more we want to control.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning, but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit.

Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.

Too much concentration belittles life. Concentration is a narrowing down of the mind - but we are concerned with the total process of living, and to concentrate exclusively on any particular aspect of life, belittles life.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.

The body performs better when the athlete lets it go than when he tries to drive it.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself — to be is to be related.