Young KCC: Then life must always be defended.
Master Kahn: The thorn defends the rose. It harms only those who would steal the blossom from the plant.

Man: Mister, I’m in your debt.
KCC: No more than the leaf owes the root. With water and sunlight, both grow together.

KCC: Long ago Jwang Joe dreamed that he was a butterfly. He was very joyful as a butterfly. Well pleased with his lot. His aims fulfilled. He knew nothing of Joe, the man. But shortly, he awoke, and found himself again, to be Jwang Joe. He could not tell whether as Joe he had dreamed he was a butterfly, or as a butterfly he has dreamed he was Joe.

Master Poe: Where is evil? In the rat, whose nature it is to steal grain. Or in the cat? Whose nature it is to kill the rat.
KCC: The rat steals. Yet for him the cat is evil.
Poe: And to the cat, the rat.
KCC: Yet master, surely one of them is evil.
Poe: The rat does not steal. The cat does not murder. Rain falls, the stream flows, a hill remains. Each acts according to its nature.
 

Master Kahn: See the way of life as a stream. A man floats, and his way is smooth. The same man turning to fight upstream, exhausts himself. To be one with the universe, each must find his true path, and follow it

Master Poe: The mountain is beautiful with snow. But after it loses its snow, green grows from underneath. In every loss there is a gain, as in every gain there is loss. Grasshopper, do you understand that?
 

MasterPoe: The undiscerning mind is like the root of a tree. It absorbs equally all that it touches. Even the poison that would kill it.

David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine/ ABC