Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.

Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.

Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?

Wriggling around, two fingers deep in my back end like some teenage boy unsure what he should be tugging at inside his girlfriend’s nether region I wrestled a fifty free.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Too much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole

A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.

Football is a whole skill to itself. A whole world. A whole universe to itself. Me love it because you have to be skilful to play it! Freedom! Football is freedom.

I think many cooks are afraid of undercooked meats. A good thermometer is a cook's best friend.

I'm not suggesting that you have to overcome your fear of death. But we have to be willing to recognize at any moment, death could come.

I can't lie, I did a lot of really, really stupid things, and it was because it was my way of crying for help.

I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.