Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

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.

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

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

The point of dreams was never to be the affordable option, it was the one everyone else saw as a mistake and every creative person saw as an opportunity.

When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.

A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God.

You can detach your attention from yourself and go anywhere. You can wander the universe. Big deal!

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.