When you believe in something and you are a good person, good things happen.

I never will give up.

When you first start to do jiu-jitsu everyone has the goal of being a black belt. You want to be great at everything you do.

It's my job to beat whoever the UFC puts in front of me. I don't really care who it is. Whoever they put in front of me, I will just try to go out and beat them.

If you are nice, nice things happen to you.

Grace is a great mercy of God.

In life, never lose hope that you are nearing a dead end, Only when you reach the end of the road you realize a road to its left and to its right.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

We read, we travel, we become.

Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!

I have come to know that we learn much more of what is important when we concentrate on helping others than when we concentrate on our own challenges.

I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

But still my fancy wanders free Through that which might have been.