The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Just like every person who works for Dortmund is a fan of the club, it was the same at Mainz. When I was a player there, we had 800 supporters on rainy Saturday afternoons, and if we died, no one would notice or come to our funeral. But we loved the club, and we have this same feeling at Dortmund.

I really have no interest in myself.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

It is better to be deceived by one’s friends than to deceive them.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops… If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I don’t have all the answers.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

It is important to remember yourself.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

Every summer’s mine.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.