It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.

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

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

Almost always it is the fear of being ourselves that brings us to the mirror.

Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing the rule book.

My plant is probably dead." Camryn looks slightly surprised. "You have a plant?" I smile. "Yeah, her name's Georgia.

It's wonderful to have money. But It's good that I know what the other side is like. I don't take for granted what I have now.

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.

In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.