Anyone who has ever achieved anything has been a steward of his potential.

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.

First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations.

We've been wed more than a month. Since it appears you mean to stay, I might as well give you leave to call me by my christian name. It is preferable, at any rate, to 'clodpole.

I have lost my smile inside the dim nature of people.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.

You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.