The gods grant nothing more than life, So let us reject whatever lifts us To unbreathable heights, Eternal but flowerless.

Letting him goThere is a particular kind of suffering to be experienced when you love something greater than yourself. A tender sacrifice. Like the pained silence felt in the lost song of a mermaid

Be the best person you can be for yourself and for everyone around you.

The elixir for the vexed human spirit is quiet thinking and contemplation.

There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer.

I feel so trapped, by my ego.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

I don't like to trash talk... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.