Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.

My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart.

When thing are at it's worse you dig deep and finish your mission or be carried out on your shield.

I'm a traditional martial artist and I'm always going to carry myself in the most respectful way I can.

I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain.

My advice to the college kids would be make sure you get your degree and then go after the dream.

Everything that I do, I have to do at my best. No one is perfect, but you can come close.

Whenever I do something I give it 100%.

I think in any movie really the two most interesting parts are the protagonist and the antagonist.

The coaches don't have to worry about me not training. The coach is usually there to make sure I'm not over trained.

Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children.

If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.

Hijras are a sexual minority that is visible, and yet we are treated as the invisibles. I believe I was never invisible. I thought, "I'm the face in the crowd, not the crowd."

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.