Jiu Jitsu can be a source of total transparency such as a mirror, but it takes a conscious choice to see what it has to say.

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.

Don’t have kids until you’re ready. And when you do have them, have them all the way. They aren’t like some Cadillac that you can turn back into the dealership after three years.

It is good medicine to go to a concert hall and forget the harshness of what's going on. It can be a very positive thing.

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Wearing the same shirts doesn't make a team.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

I don't have a cell phone. I am not a Luddite.

Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.

My mind’s screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground.

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am