Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I think that’s something that all mothers have to deal with, especially single mothers. We work, and we have to leave the kids behind. And I think that’s one of the reasons that we, not only as women but as families, we have to advocate for early childhood education for all of our children.

What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it’s because that’s what’s inside.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

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.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

I’m just like you – I want to be a good human being. I’m doing my best, and I’m working at it. And I’m trying to be a Christian. I’m always amazed when people walk up to me and say, ‚I’m a Christian.‘ I always think, ‚Already? You’ve already got it?‘ I’m working at it. And at my age, I’ll still be working at it at 96.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

Great loves too must be endured.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

It’s getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work… I’m trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

I was becoming post-ideological.

All men hate the nagging.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

I believe when it comes to love, there’s something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don’t think I have a pattern.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

They know enough who know how to learn.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

I always put myself out there. I’m not afraid to commit to something.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.