“It’s been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.”

By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.

I’ve been inspired by a shitload of people in my life so if there’s ever anybody that I can inspire, to me that’s a huge gift. To be able to turn that back around.

The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers.

Haters are all failures. It’s 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

We’re constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We’re finding it where we didn’t think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We’re finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we’re having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what’s possible on this planet alone.

Reality really is a theatre. There’s no other way to describe it. It’s all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

Greatness and madness are next door neighbors and they often borrow each other’s sugar.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

Not all comedy clubs or situations are ideal, especially when you’re first coming up and I think that’s good for you. Eventually, you get to express your real personality.

Life is strange. You keep moving and keep moving. Before you know it, you look back and think, ‘What was that?’

Work for that feeling that you have accomplished something, Don’t waste your time on this earth without making a mark.

If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.

Choose To Be Inspired.

I’ve done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It’s a big part of mixed martial arts.

The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion.

Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter’s frost and chill, summer’s warmth is in them still.

Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow.

All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.

All of my life I’ve been growing into who I am in my life today and I am still growing, but I believe in love and nothing can deter me in that.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills.