Why do people watch fights?... They watch it for inspiration.

You have to wake up and say, 'I have a fire in me to be better than I am right now.' That's your base.

Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.

I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people's dreams come true.

Humility comes from how you come at the world. Confidence comes from how you come at yourself.

Fighters have to be optimists.

Every day is one day closer to the dirt, so you got to go hard.

I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in my head from day one... So that began my teaching journey.

There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.

I always look at things as, instead of a problem, how is this an opportunity?

You have to get comfortable being uncomfortable... so that when we get our 15 minutes in the cage, we don't panic, we don't break down.

It's a full time job with a part-time companion.

Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.

Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.

there is no politically neutral art.

I write, not for children,but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

Let's protect and empower workers who actually drive our economy.

Hopefully my hair grows really quick, I want it long again

Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. He was not at all surprised by your birth. In fact, he expected it.

I like to create what I call 'tablescapes.' It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?

Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.