Specialisation is for insects!

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Everything good that I know was taught to me by great teachers and I feel like giving back and sharing the technique is the thing to do.

Never be led in new paths by the blind

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe and transcends all boundaries.

I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it.

Surprise is the mother of panic.

The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.