Freedom from the thinking mind is our underlying goal for most of human activity.

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.

More than anything." Rob persisted. "You'd crawl on your belly over broken glass for her. Easy.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

Use what you have or risk losing it.

You always question what's new. It's human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how strange, feels normal because you're trained to see it that way. You're brainwashed.

It is easier to kill a million armed men than a single unarmed idea.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.