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.

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.

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

Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.

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.

If you can't listen to people, they hardly will follow you.

With a good music and a good dance, you enhance your physical, emotional, spiritual and mental well-being.

Our churches are full of people during work hours, in the morning, at noon, in the evening praying, instead of being in the factories, libraries, and laboratories, facilitating economic growth.

It's true what they say, that a baby gives you a reason to live. But also, a baby is a reason that it is not permissible to die. There are days when this does not feel good.

Nature neither gives nor expects mercy.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.