MMA is a sport. We go out here and we do battle. Everybody has family, friends, they train really hard.

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

I take Epsom salt baths.

For India, it is all about whatever number they want me to bat and not the other way round.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface.

I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I live in a 950-square-foot apartment with one bathroom and two sons.

People should debate. They shouldn't be afraid to talk. You should listen to what other people think and how they make decisions. There should be an exchange of ideas and opinions because that's how we learn.

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.

When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that 'civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.' The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.

I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism.

Maybe I'm delusional but I'm usually funny. It's not 100% but I have a pretty good batting average.

For me personally, I have vitiligo, so my whole career, it's always been this very odd debate: 'Does she want to be white? Is she white and black? Is her mum white?' It's always been this question of my background, my race, and what I stand for.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

As a batting captain, you do have to earn bowlers' trust, especially when it comes to fields.

If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.

It's tempting to dismiss the debate about the National Security Agency spying on Americans as a technical conflict about procedural rights.