We call it training. Not because we are training for Jiu Jitsu. We are training for life.

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.

Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say.

People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.

You know it's right when you feel this undeniable connection and chemistry.

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

Hollywood is a symbol of global movies, it's not just American movies. It's become a platform and a melting pot; it's for all the talents and capital from all over the globe.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

"So you have your price."... "Your soul for a cookie."

I want to thank you my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up.

I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.