"Once I slow down because I think..." - Quote by Bruce Lee

“I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.”

“I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.”

“Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.”

“He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.”

“Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.”

“If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born-it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, 'Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning.”

“The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.”

“You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.”

“Good reasons must of force give place to better.”