It is fellowship, this most fundamental need on our way toward achieving our highest expression of the human experience, which Jiu Jitsu provides.

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.

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.

And yet, it is amazing that poetry often touches the heart even though it may not try to teach us anything.

But now that I’m scrubbingtoilets on my hands & knees, with four degrees, I realize that one escape routeleads to another

Adam ate the apple and our teeth still ache.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Being white is a job in America. You take that away, you better get the soldiers out.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.

Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.