I’m a decent cook; I’m a decent chef. None of my friends would ever have hired me at any point in my career. Period.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

‚Via Dolorosa‘ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

I’m not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

My most important projects have been the building and maintaining of schools and medical clinics for my dear friends in the Himalaya and helping restore their beautiful monasteries, too.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.