What you conquer in your soul you conquer in your world.

We cannot control other people and their actions but we can control how we act and react to them.

Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.

I like hitting people. The best feeling is when you hit so hard, pow! You get a jarring headache.

Sometimes that kind of last-ditch tackle can get the crowd excited, and you get a push from that. It's important to play with that psychological side of the game, but it depends on the quality of the player.

Heroes rarely look the way we draw them in our minds: attractive, imposing figures with rippling muscles and strong chins. More times than not they are humble beings, small and flawed. It is only their spirits that are beautiful and strong.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

The tyrant of Syracuse once went to the slavephilosopher Epictetus and told him, "I'll pay the ransom for you and you will be liberated " Epictetus replied, "Why do you care about me? Free yourself." "But I am a king," said the amazed tyrant. "This I contest," was the answer of the philosopher. "He who masters his passions is a king even while in chains. He who is ruled by his passions is a slave even while sitting on a throne.

When you pursue your path, exploring the possibilities as you search for your ikigai, pay careful attention to things that make you angry and get you all riled up and provoke you to say, Someone should do something about that!!! The someone may be you.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.

All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don't want to know what causes dew.