Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Art is the expression of the self. The more complicated and restricted the method, the less the opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom. …

Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else - and failing.

When I look around I always learn something, and that is to be yourself always, express yourself, and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a succ…

The whole, though larger than any of its parts, does not necessarily obscure their separate identities.