When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely.

It's not about the past or the future, it's about right now.

Nobody is born a winner, but anyone can develop the way of thought that guides you to the right direction.

A black belt doesn't mean anything. The meaning is in the journey.

Nurture you mind with great thoughts

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.

I dont think about what my opponent will do in the fight and especially what he has to say about me - doesn't matter to me at all.

Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.

I canalmost understandwhypeopleleapfrombridges.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.

Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.

There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America.

It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.