Every day is one day closer to the dirt, so you got to go hard.

Why do people watch fights?... They watch it for inspiration.

You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now.' That's your base.

Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.

I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.

Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.

Fighters have to be optimists.

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.

I always look at things as, instead of a problem, how is this an opportunity?

You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.

The dragon marking rested, his fangs concealed and his eyes shut. "Your dragon is pleased, " she said. "Indeed, he is.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this.

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

A single leaf falling autumn is everywhere.

I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

May be you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

Indolence is the dry rot of even a good mind and a good character; the practical uselessness of both. It is the waste of what might be a happy and useful life.

The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.