No one's life will be harder because I exist.

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.

When you realize you are no longer made of glass, you lose the desire to demonstrate that fragility in others.

We are force-fed beliefs through incessant advertisements by a culture that ceaselessly fosters our conformity to values which are of no service to the individual.

Moral concepts are useful to the extent that they provoke opposition.

You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design.

...each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.

I think my favorite part about being on the road is that it's like a boys' club.

Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.

Every time I paint, I throw myself into the water in order to learn how to swim.

if we begin on the men, there is no stopping. We must love them when we can.

The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell.

Real love isn't ever ambivalent.