"I'm just happy I'm not a phoney...." - Quote by Mike Tyson

“Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.”

“I may have smoked too much weed, but I wasn't taking drugs or anything.”

“I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.”

“I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation.”

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

“No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.”

“The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on.”

“Health, south wind, books, old trees, a boat, a friend.”

“Look for an occupation that you like, and you will not need to labor for a single day in your life.”