At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.

Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.

You have to have fear in order to have courage.

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.

I'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying.

Don't doubt, don't stop... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting.

You have to fight because you can't count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can't fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.

One thing that I learned from judo... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort.

I train to be the best in the world on my worst day

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Where there is darkness, there once was light.

Women always bring it back to the personal, ' said Handsome. 'It's why you can't be world leaders.''And men never do, ' I said, 'which is why we end up with no world left to lead.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

I think it was impossible not to come upon a lot of confabulation simply because any good scholarship that has been done since [Buckminster Fuller] death has really delved in that.

I love you more than I can express, or can ever hope to express

In a world of infinite choice if something is not made specifically for me I'm gone.

Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive."

...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.