I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence.

Jiu Jitsu has given me an education in education, which I now see is the most valuable education there is.

Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing.

Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going.

Just know that the achievement of anything grand takes consistent effort year after year. Motivation can uphold you intermittently, but it has too few calories to sustain a life.

Systems and processes will always surpass motivation.

We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way.

Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections.

I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you.

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.

A dream without a fight is a nightmare.

I am not what you see and hear.

What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

By the way, Santa just is white.

It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.

I don't really have a favorite artist - I mean, I really love Drake - but it depends on my mood. I like anything that makes me feel good.

Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.