I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to 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.

No one has direct access to your mind like you do. That's why introspection remains a valid technique even after the invention of brain scanners.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.

The quietness here had an agreement with dust

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

We used to think, 'I have a feeling; I want to make a call.' Now our impulse is, 'I want to have a feeling; I need to send a text.'