If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live.

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.

Ouch! What are you doing, Karl, you broke my skull!

The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

If you change your diet, someone will call you a traitor.

I grew up watching Mickey Mouse and going to Disney World, like, 2,000 times. Mickey Mouse is like my guru.

I want to fight for the side that fights for the living. Did I come to the right place?

I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are.

Humans treat time as a map and always know where they are located on it and respond with the appropriate emotion.