Every interaction with another is an opportunity to serve.

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.

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

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.

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.

Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong

Remember to keep yourself alive, there is nothing more important than that.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

The leader’s (Jeff Denson’s) superb bowing.. showcasing Denson’s haunting vocals

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!

The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email.

I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.