B.J. Penn Quotes

A wise neuter joins with neither but uses both as his honest interest leads him.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.

Time is what we want most but... what we use worst.

The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.

Next to God thy parents.

O Lord help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Religion is nothing else but love to God and man.

Not to be provoked is best but if moved never correct till the fume is spent for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

The smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood.

There is a strength of character in the people who have, by and large, never experienced comfort.

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.

My mom, if you asked her if she was interested in whether or not people gambled, would say no.

I can't imagine dating someone famous. I try to stay away from that as much as I can.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Anger can be a problem, but it has tremendous potential, too. It's just figuring out what to do with it.