I’m not going to stop having problems.

In the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us… While what we call ‚our own life‘ remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make ‚our own life‘ less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

I never fall in love.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

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

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.