Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.

There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.

Karate-Do is a lifetime study

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

I feel like Hollywood is a big high school again. Seriously, Ashton Kutcher is the prom king.

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

The future will be gorgeous and reckless, and words, those luminous charms, will set us free again.

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.

There's never a bad time to put earplugs in. They're the kind of thing you can reject as a bit lame, but somebody told me to do start wearing earplugs and it turned out to be great advice.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.