Hip-hop used to be about battles, beatboxing and breakdancing. All they get exposed to now is the negative stuff.

Discipline. Honour. Respect. This is why I appreciate MMA.

My goal is to win the belt, whoever it's on. I'm not gonna settle for anything less.

Of course I want to test myself. I enjoy fighting. But I also have six kids, and I want them to go to college. I hope that I can reach a point where I get the best of both worlds.

Rankings don't mean much to me because they can change after one fight. I just hope that I've at least gotten respect. A respect ranking is all I want.

I think every [fighting] style has the same core. It's all about changing and positioning, transitions.

Since your mindset can make you or break you, how is it going? Is it representing you well or does it need a complete overhaul?

There was no arguing with blood.

I set many of my stories in a gritty "realist" world, but one that is plagued by an overuse of technology, which is akin to the world we find ourselves living in now.

Those who will find here a hold for their souls, an anvil for their hands, and vitality for their hearts, will build both their lives and the land.

My addiction has always been beautiful women, being surrounded by them.

My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.

He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.