I'm the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I've prepared my entire life to be that way.

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

Joy sat in my throat like an egg resting on a spoon, quiet and fragile, but real.

After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance

We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.

So where'd you park the car, Max?''I don't know. I couldn't see over the wheel.''That's okay. I think I can smell it.

Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that.

A Peace to End All Peace.

I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called 'Notice Me'. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can't even imagine how terrible it is.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.