But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

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

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

I’ve discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God’s Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

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.

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I’m perpetually lonely.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home’s potential for positive influence.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

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

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

My life has been very full.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.