When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

Some people would like me to be round again.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

My father wasn’t perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

When I signed up for BFC, then-coach Ashley Westwood wanted me to play on the left as an attacking midfielder. I was not sure initially but I believed in his vision. For the first six-seven games, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I was like a headless chicken. But he kept backing me.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

Competition is a sin.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Our work is never over.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

I think that I’m perfect.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.