My second passion besides fighting is traveling. So, for me to be able to go somewhere like the places I've been is just awesome.

When I had a boxing match, all I wanted to do was put the guy on his back. That's why I chose to chase after MMA.

I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.

I can't wait to continue traveling and do as much as I can possibly do.

I cannot forgive you. That day, if you had not refused, I would have given you a present. I would have carved my love in stone.

None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

Evolution continually innovates, but at each level it conserves the elements that are recombined to yield the innovations.

There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.