I am vulnerable; that's why I fight.

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

Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.

Logic stays true, wherever you may go, So logic never tells you where you live.

There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.

The cultural transformation from the love of power to the power of love is the drama of our time.

As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.

I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care

Clarity proceeds Mastery!

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at will. He doesn't paint but is painted through.