You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.

Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength

For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep.

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.

Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life.

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.

Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

That's a good way to live, go against the wind.

The only object of liberty is life.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

I know perfectly well that you can't not want anything and live.

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.