I'm very comfortable in the storm.

Everything in life goes back to the basics.

There's always a way you can get better. You can never be satisfied. You can never say, 'That's good enough'.

If I knew I was going to win, I probably wouldn't even fight.

All these feelings that you get before you fight or when you're fighting or training for a fight, it makes me feel alive, and I love that feeling.

There is hope in any circumstance. Be strong!

If Jesus was willing to be beaten and tortured to gain the salvation of mankind, the least we can do is tell them about it.

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.

Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.

For women especially, its important to be financially independent.

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.