I believe that which you study is only matched in importance by the sincerity with which you approach it.

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.

be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you

O Lord, I am further away from me than from You!

Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.

I am in a moment of pretty wellness.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

In rock stardom there's an absolute economic upside to self-destruction.

The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.

Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.