That I happened to fall into a career that no other girls wanted isn't surprising to me. I wanted something that didn't exist, so I had to create it.

Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'

One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.

You have to have fear in order to have courage.

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.

I'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying.

Don't doubt, don't stop... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting.

You have to fight because you can't count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can't fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.

One thing that I learned from judo... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort.

I train to be the best in the world on my worst day

When people live in abnormality for too long, the abnormal becomes normal and eventually, identity is lost

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.

I've always liked extreme performers; I don't think I am one, but my mentality is in line with that.

Wages will rise, jobs will return, and factories will come rushing, rushing back in to our country.

Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

May peace-dreamers And peace-lovers Occupy the length and breadth Of the world.

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.

For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.