I am a student of whoever I can learn from.

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.

All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.

To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas.

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.

To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.

If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.

My main job is to go and have fun. When I do that, everything just seems to fall into place.

I don't fight to prove that I'm tough, I know I'm tough. I fight because it's inside of me.

Being a great fighter is having a perfect balance of having that toughness, skill, as well as that mental capability to be able to out-think you opponent.

Life is a celebration… I try to enjoy it as much as possible.

I don't look girls in the eyes, I am afraid to fall in love

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

I think it's not a big secret that I like to work a lot. I really go out for projects when I find things I'm passionate about.

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

I love purple because my name is Amethyst.

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)

It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath.

I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely sky of winter