Your potential for growth is directly proportionate to the degree to which you are willing to make mistakes.

We see that the vast majority of our suffering is needless, and simply arises from the misidentification with our thinking mind.

Society is a collection of selves perpetuating their myth.

The major events in our lives receive the entire spotlight, but ultimately your life will be defined by the same handful of choices you make each day.

My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.

Jiu Jitsu is the vehicle. Not the road.

You are never as good as you think you are, and you are never as bad as you believe yourself to be.

There is no higher calling than service to your fellow man, and to do so through your own personal mastery of a craft is a gift enjoyed by few. Cultivate this gift, and give it away.

Do not get caught pursuing the goals of who you used to be instead of who you are.

The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become.

Let's live our lives with great meaning and purpose in the attempt to influence the world to whatever degree our circumstance allows.

If you sing a song, any brokenness shall heal.

...remember after every autumn, the flora senses the rapturous kiss of cheerful spring.(Book-Love Vs Destiny)

I had a dream about you last night... we tried to joke but neither could make any sense. We realized that puns are present in every language, though not shared by any of them.

All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser.

I have to go with Data's makeup, because that was basically every day, 10 months out of the year, for seven years. There were only a couple of days that I had to endure for Dr. Soong.

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.

Is there a God? There is, but we don't know where. Or who. And, indeed, why.