I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Playing in MLS was a great experience. It has boosted my confidence and I feel I have matured as a player.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

I listen to my old records and I think, ‚How did I ever get on the radio?‘

Money does not change people, people change.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‚in denial‘ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

I got my own back.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I just want to be myself.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

I can express myself.

I didn’t take many penalties, but I never missed one.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‚try to be a little kinder.‘

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

The things that transfixed you as a child, that you found most exciting was not a passing fancy, but a message about what you’re supposed to do.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

For me, ‚risky‘ is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.