We are the estranged orphans of our nations and tribes, and we now bear the weight not of survival of the group but of personal identity.

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.

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.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

To know something about trees-about even one tree-is to know something profound about the nature of the world and our place in it.

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.

I don't really know what I'm ever looking for, it's kind of like whatever happens to resonate at the time with me.

We're not only hockey players. A lot of guys have families and girlfriends. You can't just think about hockey 24-7.

If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

Like a cat on a hot tin roof.