"Praying Mantis, very good. For catching bugs, but not tigers."

"Kung-Fu. Hard work over time to accomplish skill. A painter can have kung-fu. Or the butcher who cuts meat every day …"

"The musician can have kung-fu, or the poet who paints pictures with words and makes emperors weep. This, too, is kung…"

"Formless, nameless, the true master dwells within. Only you can free him."

"[grinning impishly and merrily at the Jade Warlord] My turn!"

"Learn the form, but seek the formless. Hear the soundless. Learn it all, then forget it all. Learn The Way, then find…"

"But do not name it, my friend, for it is like water. Nothing is softer than water yet it can overcome rock. It does n…"

"How romantic. Men will tell you what you want to hear, Sparrow, but in the end they will leave you with nothing!"

"The path is unsafe. The place is unknown. The journey is unbelievable."

"The battle for eternity is the fantasy of a lifetime."