I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.

Losing is a bad feeling. I've never been on an undefeated team throughout high school, so I tasted defeat before. I've been taught to handle it graciously.

Get hurt in a fight... got to keep going... Heart and mind, they kind of go hand in hand.

Each day we kill a compulsive love with our impulsive actions.

In my heart, poetry screams, “I exist!

The truest experience of life is when we dream awake.

Despite all their fears, we ask very little of the ones who never loved us. We do not ask for sympathy or pain or compassion. We simply want to know why.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

I sit at the piano for a couple of hours and tinker away until I get something. I am a nocturnal spirit, like an owl.