We are force-fed beliefs through incessant advertisements by a culture that ceaselessly fosters our conformity to values which are of no service to the individual.

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.

When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others.

No one's life will be harder because I exist.

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.

The ball and chain of creativity has no key

We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have almost certainly forgotten more than we currently remember.

Gratitude brings more blessings into our lives.

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

My least favorite phrase in the English language is 'I don't care.'

I can't remember, because I never knew.