Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

I have wasted my hours.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.

I’m grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

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.

What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

I’d like to think that I’m a calm and sweet person. I tend to be very playful at home with my children, but in life… we have to fight our battles – our work battles, our political battles, our personal battles – and we’re focused.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

The way I try to represent my family and coaches, I think all are characteristics the league aspires to portray. That’s just who I am.

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.

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use – a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

If you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

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