We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way.

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.

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.

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

What a great gladness to welcome a new born baby into the world.

Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.

Do you think a woman can give a man everything while still withholding her heart? We are not made that way! - Fiona

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality.

I believe that we have a responsibility to make culture available for all people, not only those who can afford to go to the movies.

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.

A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.