There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it.

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.

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.

Even if you delegate that responsibility, ultimately you are the one responsible for howyour brand is portrayed.

Even in that difficult hour when he knew death was imminent, he never indulged in self-pity. He knew intuitively that a person is only a victim if he accepts himself as one.

They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

I don't believe in bad. I believe in relativity. The only way we can know what we call good is if there's also something we call bad.

I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.

You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

Life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve.

I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.