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

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

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

I have practically no private life. I’m already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

I tend to overthink things. I’m not the guy who screams ‚This is a world smash!‘ when I finish a song.

You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

It’s different from being 21 and you think there’s endless amount of opportunities. At 33, the ending is much, much closer.

I don’t think I get angry.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

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.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

You should never give up your inner self.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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.

I loved what I did. I could’ve been secretary of state for ever.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that’s not the way our food system in America is set up. It’s very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.