In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiselling away at the inessentials until the truth of its creation is revealed without obstructions. Thus, contrary to other styles, being wise in Jeet Kune-Do doesn't mean adding more; it means to minimize, in other words to hack away the unessential.

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

The important things which were said to humanity were always simple things.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say- because they were too obvious.