In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

My mother always wanted to give back.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn’t feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It’s a parallel thing in me.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

I’m a genetic optimist.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

My next baby will be my new record.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me ‚Trey‘ because I’m William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I’m also known.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

We all have done something unethical.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

As for my own views, they’ve of course evolved over the years. This conception of ‚renouncing beliefs‘ is very odd, as if we’re in some kind of religious cult. I ‚renounce beliefs‘ practically every time I think about the topics or find out what someone else is thinking.

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.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father’s head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, ‚If it’s a boy, he’s going to be a scientist.‘

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

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.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

I hated to be treated as a child. I thought it was the worst situation.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.