There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

The first wealth is health.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

After the first day of practice, there’s not one guy who’s playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it just hurts.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

I’m not going to lie; listen, I’m nice at basketball.

I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you’re wearing. That’s what style is, ‚cause everybody’s got different style.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

I’m very good at what I do, and I don’t turn my hand to something unless I’m very good at it, frankly.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

I wasn’t a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

‚I’ll be back‘ always sounded a little girly to me.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.