What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

In my work and in myself I reflect black people, women and men, as I reflect others. One day even the most self-protective ones will look into the mirror I provide and not be afraid.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

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.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

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

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

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

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

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.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

Sin is geographical.