I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.

Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.

You have to have fear in order to have courage.

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.

I'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying.

Don't doubt, don't stop... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting.

You have to fight because you can't count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can't fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.

One thing that I learned from judo... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort.

I train to be the best in the world on my worst day

You are scared to relive them, the vulnerability of succumbing. So you think to shove them into a box at the back of your closet makes them less of a ticking time bomb?

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.

Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

When you find your spiritual gift, God will give you an opportunity to use it.

No organization is going to be successful unless it places a high value on its employees and engages them in the work that it's doing.

I love nuts. I'm for nuts. I am nuts.

The morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness.