I wasn't much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.

I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.

The garage is not a panacea. It's just easier if people know they can drive in and find a place to park.

As six-time world karate champion and then a movie star, I put too much trust in who I was, what I could do, and what I acquired. I forgot how much I needed others and especially God.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.