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.

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.

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

Fighters have to be optimists.

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

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.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

I think it's OK that everyone's not real heavy and wordy and heady.

Actors always want to be musicians, and musicians want to be actors

[On George H.W. Bush vs. Michael Dukakis:] Americans now know they can vote for a man who can't express his thoughts or a man who can't express his feelings.

The difficulty is not making a decision, it's living with the consequences.

Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens