Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.

If you don't give up, eventually you will break the cycle and you will overcome any obstacle.

Every time you achieve a dream, you must set another one. Because that will strengthen your path. Or you will become dead, because if you have no dreams, you have no life.

I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.

The Samurai always has to rise and move on, because new challenges will come.

You can have talent and strength, but the most important is determination.

I try to clear my mind of everything, I try to think of nothing. I just let my body act, the body can take control and do what it's trained to do.

My philosophy is the same as a Samurai: To hit without getting hit.

To be happy is very important to do a great performance because you have to be comfortable; your mind has to be clear.

If you gave up, you've already lost. If you keep going, you get to a new level.

I never fear my opponent, for me he only represents a new challenge to conquer.

To win the hearts of beautiful creatures, your stories must always be told with a joyful face, full of sweetness and love, seen at a distance with kindness.

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

I assume there must be some kind of genetic thrust. My two grandmothers were very different, but both of them were frustrated musicians.

I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

Make your judgments and then you don't have to worry about it. You're always going to have those people who are offended about every little thing.