Quotes

You know what? I've never paid taxes in my life. I'm probably going to go to jail.

I live a fight life, I can do what I want to win a fight.

Martial arts, when I do martial arts, it's more of a life type of training.

This is my life. It's everything I do, train eight-hour days every day.

I held off on having kids and getting married so I could fight. I gave my life to this.

Every other fighter has a life on the side. I've never had another job.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

Being a parent means my time use has to be a bit more focused, but it also gives me a new non-writing dimension to my life, which is a healthy thing. I can't wander along for weeks with an idea drifting through my head - I have someone who will drag me back into life, and that's a good thing.

E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to find new life and a chance for new stories to appear, freed from the constraints of paper publishing.

My maternal grandmother was the longest-lived of my grandparents. She migrated to Australia in her 80s and lived into her 90s. It was great that she got to be part of my adult life.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

In life you get one take, and it's perfect. It's strange, afterwards you might think I shouldn't have reacted that way, but that's the way you reacted. That's your take; that's all you get.

In life you get one take, and it's perfect.

That's the thing about a book: You're in the public life for a little bit, and then you sort of go away for a little while - several years, in my case - and then you come out again, hopefully.

When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.

Everything you do in life is a process that you work at it, and you can't give up.

You could ask yourself, 'Hey, when you were 20, are you the same person?' You're not. You may have the same values, you might look a little older, you might have some things that are the same, but your heart, everything about you, starts growing, changing - good or bad. It just depends on how you approach life.

When you're playing in the NFL, you can only do this for a short amount of time. Guys retire before they're 30. If you play forever, you play into your 40s - and you're still a young man with a lot of life left to live.

We're professional athletes, and we have moments where we step back, and we have to think and assess everything in life.

I wouldn't be out here without God, without Jesus in my life.

I think when you look at a struggle in your life, just know that's just an opportunity for your character to grow.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.