In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.

Every day I turned a 'you can't' into a 'you can.'

I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

How do you beat an individual who hasn't been beaten in 13 years? With the help of others.

We were taught instead of just reading about life we needed to go out and live it.

There is enough reality in my life, so I try not to read things that have too much stress.

I use the terms "sky" and "earth" because as a human I cannot imagine those elements not being there. It is a way to give substance to nothingness.

What the eyes don't see, the heart can't feel.

Time flies when you are having fun.

I'm not the one or two take guy, but I'm not the 20, 30, 50, 70 take guy either. If I do a bunch of takes, like more than five or six, it's usually for some technical reasons.

Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.

Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.

Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out.

If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people.

We live in a world where sort of nothing is shocking anymore.

The people that are doing work that matters aren't doing work thats popular. They're just doing work that changes some people.