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.

Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say.

That’s what marriage was at its best: You didn’t have to tell your partner to look out, that you were falling. They were just there to catch you.

The government can make laws, but only the God can give self-esteem where there is none

The most powerful channel of communicationis still, "The Heart" !

who ever play with play will cry with play

I feel like music does have a role to play in waking people up; it can be an alarm clock or it can be a lullaby.

The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing

Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.

Fanaticism displays itself in the masses; but the masses were rarely fanaticised; and the crimes ascribed to it were commonly due to the calculations of dispassionate politicians.

It's about falling down and getting back up.

Help, I have done it again I have been here many times before Hurt myself again today And the worst part is There's no-one else to blame.