Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.

I just want to keep writing music.

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

I’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.

I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

There is a place in the net where the keeper cannot reach the ball.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

I’m not a natural joiner.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

I don’t have all the answers.

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

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

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

It’s amazing: I am a New Yorker. It’s strange; I never thought I would be.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

If you wish to be a writer, write.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

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.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I don’t want to be called a point guard, but I can’t stop it.

Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I’ve never been in love before – I don’t really know? I think I have. I guess it’s subjective in that way.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

Football is all about fans.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

I’m tender on the inside.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.