A biography for Bruce Leehasn’t been written yet.
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.”
“Real living is living for others.”
“Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.”
“The More we value things, the less we value ourselves”
“To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.”
“A conditioned mind is never a free mind.”
“It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.”
“Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.”
“You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.”
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
“Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.”
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
“Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.”
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”