Remembering what you’ve been through and how that has strengthened your mindset can lift you out of a negative brain loop and help you bypass those weak, one-second impulses to give in. Even if you’re feeling low and beat down by life right now, I guarantee you can think of a time or two when you overcame odds and tasted success.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.

I don’t believe in ‚thinking‘ old. Although I’ve transitioned through many bodies – a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult – my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

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

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

I try to use my experience and the fact that I grew up in the ghetto – I tell people you don’t have to rob or steal to get out of the ghetto.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I’m interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

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

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

I will never retire unless I have to.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.