Jiu Jitsu provides a place of fellowship that, unfortunately, our society has largely failed to create.

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.

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.

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.

A free American girl can accommodate herself to circumstances without the aid of a man.” -Nellie Bly

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.

And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.

I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

Only those leaders who act boldly in times of crisis and change are willingly followed.

By all means never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

..if the beginning of the thought or theory is not rooted in reality, the end or the final results of such a thought or theory could well be disastrous in practice.

I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing.