My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart.

Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.

When thing are at it's worse you dig deep and finish your mission or be carried out on your shield.

I'm a traditional martial artist and I'm always going to carry myself in the most respectful way I can.

I believe martial arts is always evolving and mixed martials arts is the top of the food chain.

My advice to the college kids would be make sure you get your degree and then go after the dream.

Everything that I do, I have to do at my best. No one is perfect, but you can come close.

Whenever I do something I give it 100%.

I think in any movie really the two most interesting parts are the protagonist and the antagonist.

The coaches don't have to worry about me not training. The coach is usually there to make sure I'm not over trained.

Always believe that life is amazing.

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

No science ever defends its first principles.

Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if they're on their phone.

I don’t even think of myself as a quote, unquote star - that’s really douchey. I think of myself as just like . . . a dance commander.

Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.

Now the stage today is to know that Self Realization gives you experiences and then your faith is established. Not blind but open enlightened faith.

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.