Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand.

If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.

Bones heal, chicks dig scars, pain is temporary, glory is forever.

It was an idealistic vision that generation had.

I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

With both kids, I started working out again at 16 days postpartum, but I treated myself with kindness, doing mild workouts, because my fitness level was lower.

American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.

If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.

There are three marks of a superior man: being virtuous, he is free from anxiety; being wise, he is free from perplexity; being brave, he is free from fear.

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

If only all the contradictory voices shouting in my head would calm down and sing a song in unison, whatever it was I wouldn't care as long as they sang without dissonance.

One thing that I don't think my critics realize about me is that I've been trained to look adversity in the face.

The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.