I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

The world can criticize me, but l can always criticize it back.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‚I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.‘ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

There’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I got a chain letter by fax. It’s very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

They would not find me changed from him they knew – only more sure of all I thought was true.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

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?

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Everybody has a purpose.

My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.