Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place.

I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.

Relationships formed through Jiu Jitsu are deeply rooted in respect for one another, and this is often not the case in matters of modern society.

Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create.

It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides.

This is the opportunity the fellowship of Jiu Jitsu affords us. To reach our highest potential of self, and then to offer that self to another.

The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world.

Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one.

Life is easier lived when lived for others.

Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats.

We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.

The choices one makes, not one's blood, determine one's destiny - John Steinbeck

You will encounter disappointments in your ministry, in yourself, and even in God Himself but remember that all these are intrigues of the devil

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness - the work.

In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.

I grew up in the home of a pastor, and my earliest memory is that God really had a plan for my life and that I was special - this is really weird - but I felt that.

I would enjoy the fact that I had a team that won a national title, but I would be disappointed that none of the kids got drafted because that's not how it's supposed to work.

To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.

The idea of a perfect vacation is not working or not having to work and having no appointments.