- Kwai Chang Caine: When you no longer strive to understand, then you will know... without understanding.
- Kwai Chang Caine: Do you know the praying mantis?
- Willis Roper: Tall insect, looks like a stick when it stands up?
- Kwai Chang Caine: Looks like it's praying. It is the position it takes before it kills.
- Master Kan: Man, like the animals, is meant to live together with others like himself. But the meaning of belonging to such a group is found in the comfort of silence and the companionship of solitude.