Those who serve others have purpose. Those who serve themselves are lost.

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.

OppressionNow dreamsAre not availableTo the dreamers, Nor songsTo the singers.In some landsDark nightAnd cold steelPrevail--But the dreamWill come back, And the songBreakIts jail.

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

It's all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we'll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.

Hey Baby. Baby? You're kidding me, right? I was trying it out. No? No.

I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.

As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.

The sage never strives for the great, and thereby the great is achieved.

I really like the half-hour comedy. I really do. I know people that are in movies all the time and they, you know, they don't see their families as much. And that takes its toll over time.

Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.

I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.