No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine.

Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine.

Everyone deals with adversity. It's how you bounce back from it.

When you got a guy that has purpose, now your in a dog fight.

Every day I wake up and I realize how lucky I am to be living this life.

You train, you fight, you show respect at the end of it.

With the skills that I have and with my commitment to getting better I don't see any reason I can't win every single fight I'm in.

If you truly believe in yourself and your skills, most times, it's enough.

If I'm to accomplish my goal of being the world champion I've got to be better; so every day I come in here with a goal, and that's to get better.

No matter how much I respect someone or how much I like someone, it doesn't exceed my will to win.

One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.

A flower is symbol of beauty for eyes, but music is the expression of beauty for ears.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find, however, is something of keeping our hearts in order.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

Almost all the people who lived in Atlantis meditated and had powerful psychic skills.

Nuclear weapons are to be worried about only when they're in the hands of Ronald Reagan - not so much when they're in the hands of a Third World anti-imperialist like Saddam Hussein. Can't you see?

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

Name it... and if you can dream it... you can achieve it.