Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.

We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day.

My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.

You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be.

There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away.

Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes.

Do not get caught pursuing the goals of who you used to be instead of who you are.

The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become.

Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.

I'm always a bit shy around evil people.

Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.

When you see something every day, it gets into your brain.

Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.