A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

We’re all insecure, aren’t we? I’m not walking around like I’m macho man or anything.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

I still learn, but I think it’s the best thing in life to have a kid.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future… but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don’t let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself.

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

The older you get, the better you get.

I approach love differently now that I know it’s hard for it to work out.

The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky.

Eating is so intimate. It’s very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you’re inviting a person into your life.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

No driver is perfect.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

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.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.