The only way to consistently perform at your potential is to ask: Am I better than I was yesterday?

Jiu Jitsu has given me an education in education, which I now see is the most valuable education there is.

Things can be added, but that doesn't mean that anything is missing.

Habits are infinitely more beneficial to the aspiring student than motivation. Motivation may get you started, but habits keep you going.

Just know that the achievement of anything grand takes consistent effort year after year. Motivation can uphold you intermittently, but it has too few calories to sustain a life.

Systems and processes will always surpass motivation.

We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way.

Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections.

I have found that the morning is far more accessible when a good book awaits you.

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

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

What within you lies in that symbolic unmarked grave? How can you create the memorial to you and your best life and effort? Make tomorrow today and make today count.

... people always credit prime ministers with more brains than they've got.

The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous triteThe storybook is blank insideChivalry has died

Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).

Take responsibility about what you have on your TV, and about what you are out there supporting.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

Great leaders get people to think more of themselves, not more of the leader.

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.