A core group of guys, all sharing similar goals, can move mountains.

Jiu Jitsu has given me an education in education, which I now see is the most valuable education there is.

Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing.

Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going.

Just know that the achievement of anything grand takes consistent effort year after year. Motivation can uphold you intermittently, but it has too few calories to sustain a life.

Systems and processes will always surpass motivation.

We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way.

Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections.

I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you.

When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others.

We are force-fed beliefs through incessant advertisements by a culture that ceaselessly fosters our conformity to values which are of no service to the individual.

The internet and online communication is the window into your world - but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.

Whether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go to their girlfriends.

Im better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created.

I'm very grateful that Barack Obama as president very much put protection of privacy on the agenda today, due to the fact of Islamist terrorism all over the world.

Run while you have the light of life!

To live in a city is to be forever flinching.

I wondered how much of me would be left after tomorrow.

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

That's all you have to ask from yourself writing a book. That it's the best you can do and that you did it without any ego involved and that you did it for somebody else. That's the best you can do.

It is not the nature of love to force a relationship, but it is the nature of love to open the way.