I just don’t want to get hit, that’s all. I want to win without getting hit.

You put the Devil on the other side, and I will come to fight.

Talented people without discipline don't go anywhere.

You win the fight in the training camp, not on the day of the fight.

The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy.

I'm not part of the history, I am the history.

Mike Tyson’s a great boxer. The greatest boxer - but boxer. Not the best fighter.

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

The losses are good... if you learn something.

I will continue to write what I love to read, and the fact that it doesn't sell as well as romance or sci-fi or fantasy isn't the point.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.

When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.

Even small efforts to bring about a change in the social fabric eventually reap large fruits.

I guess you need days off, but I just didn't want them.

I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be?

There's always that one person, That will always have your heart. That one person for me is you.

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.