When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else.

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.

Great is the sin. But greater is God's grace.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

Democracy is not a Beloved Republic really, and never will be. But it is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government, and to that extent deserves our support.

At its core, health is simple: eat the right amount for your body, don't ingest chemicals or fake foods, and move more.

You have to talk about the issue of race, but I can talk to white constituents about racism, if I at least acknowledge that life is not a crystal stair for them either.

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.

Some guys score and some guys don't. We got a lot that don't.

The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think.

The easier you can make it inside your head, the easier it will make things outside your head.