Life is easier lived when lived for others.

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.

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.

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.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

I realize that even through the hard times I’m sure we’ll face, I’ll never be able to walk away from her. -Micha

Married and buried, wed and dead.

I Have Found that If You Love Life Life will Love You Back

Generally, our approach with products at Google is to first develop the right user base and then to figure out what's the right experience for the ads.

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me.

Study everything, join nothing.

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.