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

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.

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

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.

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

Growing up is, at heart, the process of learning to take responsibility for whatever happens in your life. To choose growth is to embrace a love that heals.

Take a deep breath. Now feel the joy of life.

Send silent blessings to those that oppose you, so they may also find peace within themselves—and the strength and perseverance to embark on their life path.

The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.

As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.

Great Britain have won 40% of their medals in cycling. If only there was snooker, darts and a dog show.

'All Over Me' is a song that I really got fired up the first time I heard it: it just really moved and it really had a lot of energy.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.