In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.

Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.

A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.

I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.

My mother supported me from the beginning and never said you should be an activist or civil rights leader or minister.

I want to take this time to thank Daniel Cormier for being my biggest rival and motivator. He has absolutely no reason to hang his head. He has been a model champion, a model husband, a model father, a teammate, a leader, and I aspire to be a lot more like that man, because he's an amazing human being.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to finance liberation struggles.