The best indicator of a man's philosophy is not what he reads or says, but the way in which he lives his life, the way in which he acts.

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.

—all I can say of the matter, is—That he has either a pumkin for his head—or a pippin for his heart, —and whenever he is dissected 'twill be found so.

We're all just people...We all have things we deal with, but it's all right. We always muddle through.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?

I have "come back" [to music scene] so many times, people are just like, Is this another one?... It's kind of like a joke to me now.

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.

The last thing I need is for daughter to move back into my basement and become another unemployed millennial statistic. Would love for her to get a job at Facebook. Become the president of Google.

Technology is super smart and also completely dumb. It doesn't know what you're putting on there. It works almost in an automated fashion.

You should never say "never."

God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.