A fight needs at least two fighters. Sometimes you can win straight away by not fighting.

I didn't let what I wanted to do become a made up memory that I looked back on years down the road and wished it was real.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do.

Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

This is your chance. Are you going to cower and make excuses or are you going to do what you really want to do?

It seemed, at that point, my greed and cunningness were being rewarded.

She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

Now comes the hard part. Peyton, Peyton, Peyton. Just say Peyton.

You’re sure? I thought I heard someone.”“Nope, not a soul, ” Blake said. “Get it. Soul. Because we’re in a church.

People are your responsibility and character is the hidden powers that cause the miracle people

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

We also have to recognize, in addition to the challenges that we face with policing, there are so many good, brave police officers who equally want reform.

The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.

I'm racist against non-black people.

Hug me and you will see the moon. Love me and I will bring the moon to you!

Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity.

I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.