I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.

If you want to burrow a message into a human mind. Work it into a story

Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard.

We are a species addicted to a stories.

When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good.

A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?

If the Cross is God’s masterpiece of His love, then the Eucharist is the centerpiece of our worship.

I hate water. It's so boring. And it takes up so much room in your stomach.

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

The cloud of mind is discharging its collected lightning.

...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual.