Your job as a young adult is to become as valuable to the marketplace as you can. Your job as a human is to do so without working a day in your life.

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.

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

I firmly believe that life will continually try to teach you the same lesson, with increasing pain, until you heed the call.

A life without having loved someone is a life never lived.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

We can make, to ourselves, very much stronger suggestions than anyone else can, whoever that person may be.

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.