“Martial arts are a vehicle for developing your human potential.”

I’ve done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It’s a big part of mixed martial arts.

The Universe rewards calculated risk and passion.

I’m obsessed to extreme winners because I think there’s a madness to it. I truly believe that in order to truly be great at something you have to give into a certain amount of madness. Quotes

Be cool to people. Be nice to as many people as you can. Smile to as many people as you can, and have them smile back at you.

Being a celebrity or anything else where you’re really ambitious, it’s really a game to see how successful you can get.

Someone else’s success does not equal a failure for you.

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don’t hang around with psycho coke fiends.

I’m obsessed to extreme winners because I think there’s a madness to it.

What’s interesting about science is that we’re constantly discovering new things about the universe, about ourselves, about our bodies, about diseases, about the possibilities of the future. It’s amazing. Science is one of the coolest things about being a human being – without a doubt.

It’s been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

There’s a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it’s boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

There’s only one way to get good at anything; you surround yourself with the bad motherfuckers who are doing exactly you do and you force yourself to keep up and inspire each other.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don’t know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

It’s been one of the most important tools for me in personal growth for understanding myself, how I am, and what effect I do have on other people.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don’t even realize it.

It is not enough to have a talented designer; the management must be inspired too. The creative process is very disorganised; the production process has to be very rational.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.

If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?

Life is earnest, art is gay.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one’s own human failing.