Positivity helps produce better results.

If you don't give up, eventually you will break the cycle and you will overcome any obstacle.

Every time you achieve a dream, you must set another one. Because that will strengthen your path. Or you will become dead, because if you have no dreams, you have no life.

I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.

The Samurai always has to rise and move on, because new challenges will come.

You can have talent and strength, but the most important is determination.

I try to clear my mind of everything, I try to think of nothing. I just let my body act, the body can take control and do what it's trained to do.

My philosophy is the same as a Samurai: To hit without getting hit.

To be happy is very important to do a great performance because you have to be comfortable; your mind has to be clear.

If you gave up, you've already lost. If you keep going, you get to a new level.

Before a fight I empty my mind. Every fighter is able to lose. It is not a big thing. You have to accept what comes and remain calm.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Gratitude doesn't change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.

If you hear a different drummer, don’t march—dance!

The pain is not about having cheap people around…. real pain is the fact that there are some people with a price to start with.

God, guide and protect us. When we're wrong, please correct us.

The tears of affliction are often needed to keep the eye of faith bright.

Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.

There is a point when you aren't as much mom and daughter as you are adults and friends.

I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.

Be kind to yourself as you proceed along this journey. This kindness, in itself, is a means of awakening the spark of love within you and helping others to discover that spark within themselves.