For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves.

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.

I don't want to die!""Then you should never been born.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

On lower budget things you're still working collaboratively, but the investment and your level of creative importance is higher on something like this.

I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart

You are not invisible to your Heavenly Father. He loves you.

I like to make use of what I know

Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

Socially, most people delayed motherhood for five to 10 years around us.