Do not seek victory, for victory in itself will not serve you. Seek to understand what made the victory possible.

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.

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

This is just a phase, right? This whole bloodlust thing?

Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.

Engagement can be a commitment to love or a declaration of war. One must enter every battle without hesitation, willing to fully engage the enemy until death do you apart.

I lived a life, a life of risks, risks I never took.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

Snacking is important. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are a great example of a perfect snack. They can go a long way.

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.