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.

I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.

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.

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.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

Will I see you again?”I turned to him and I shrugged. “If what we feel is real, then yes I have no doubt we will.

I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district.

Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem.

It's going to be crazy. All eight teams here are good teams. Hopefully the atmosphere will be great because it's going to be great basketball.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.

The messages our kids receive from teachers, coaches--and even, with the best intentions, from us - can push them toward pride or despair...toward self-righteousness or self-hatred.

I have an ugly day every month; pimples on my face, I'm fat and in a bad mood. It's more like an ugly week!