These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

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.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

I don’t go around thinking I’m Ray Bradbury all the time.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

I never fall in love.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I don’t make people bend over backwards, and I don’t like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

It is hard sometimes to always be at the centre of attention, but when you talk about me you also have to talk about the climate.

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I’m odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

I think I have always had a little humor.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Had I been a great athlete, I’m not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.

We all have done something unethical.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.