Chi Quotes

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

People think that I work out but it's all t'ai chi.

Chi Chi Rodriguez had as good a pair of hands as anybody I ever saw, and more shots than you can imagine. But Chi Chi had a habit of turning simple shots into difficult ones.

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi.

And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.