I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

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.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‚one size fits all‘ standard for happiness.

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

Yeah, I’m an open book.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

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.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

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.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

Be content to seem what you really are.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

You can retire from a job, but don’t ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

Man is a universe within himself.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.