All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

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.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

We cannot learn men from books.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, ‚I’m a representative.‘

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

I’m the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that’s horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

Travel teaches toleration.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

I love being busy.

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.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

I don’t think any country is perfect. It’s our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don’t like. I think that’s part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

We become what we repeatedly do.

I want people to draw strength from me.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I just feel so much more comfortable and confident every game I play.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‚I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.‘

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?