To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and leverage rather than brute strength

For the choke, there are no "tough guys". With an arm lock he can be tough and resist the pain. With the choke he just passes out, goes to sleep.

Jiu Jitsu is a mousetrap. The trap does not chase the mouse. But when the mouse grabs the cheese, the trap plays its role.

The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.

Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life.

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves.

Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.

Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.

The world is too sane. It could use a little madness.

I'm under strict instructions to write a happy ending. Rule number ninety-seven: You're not allowed to make a dragon cry." "Right," Said Sophie, starting the engine. "Tears might quench their fire.

I am so happy to be at Barclays Center. When I saw Brett Yormark, I thought to myself that he and his brother Michael are doing an amazing job.

I think that if anyone bothered to take a survey, they would find a sharp decline in atheism during the winters in Cleveland, Ohio.

Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable.

It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do a lot of research and a lot of thinking and taking a lot of notes before I turn it in.