There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

What's the point of doing anything if nobody's watching?

When God created man and woman, he was thinking, 'Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?' And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.

Internationally, I love going to Switzerland. I went there many times for shooting and loved the Alps, the tranquility, cleanliness, the greenery and the warmth of the people there.

Ideally, we'd want an Irishman coming in for the job, but, ideally it doesn't really matter.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.

Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!

Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.

Fear first made gods in the world.