The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world.

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.

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.

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.

Pursue your dreams with great passion.

You don't mince words.""Just garlic.

When we will learn to seeThere is no you and me but only weThen in this world peace will be.

Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them - even if it's not logical.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

I've never been the guy who's like, 'I take it home with me.'

You ain't never seen nothing crazier than this n - -a when he off his Lexapro.

My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.

We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.

To succeed, you must first believe you can.