The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on

Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.

In training, there is no winning or losing. There is only learning.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

I've come to learn that what really matters is the relationship, the quality of the relationship.

You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while.

Communication is not what we say, but what you hear (which is a lesson I wish our educational system understood)