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.

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.

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.

the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.

There's an ad for every vice. That's advice.

But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

I know it's hard on her. If I don't tell her she'll kill me." He pauses. "That was supposed to be funny.

I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.

I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.