Don't listen to criticism, positive or negative. You just keep going forward.

Everyone should smile. Life really isn’t that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.

When you start comparing yourself to another man's mirror, that's when those negative thoughts start creeping in. My journey isn't anybody else's journey.

Patience is a virtue. Keep doing what you want to do and eventually things will happen.

The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in.

I think a lot of people are so scared of failure that they don't put everything they have into whatever they want to do. I think, in turn, they write their own destiny.

I think you always strive to get better as an athlete. That's the difference between good and great, in my opinion.

I feel like every running back should have their own little stamp on the game.

I'm not looking forward to a specific person per se; I'm just excited to meet everyone. I respect greatness and I'm just going to soak in anyone I meet.

Anytime I can add a smile to somebody's life that's all well and good, but I play the game to play the game.

Courage isn’t being a dragon. Neither is it behaving like a dragon. Nor is it taking up arms to fight and defeat dragons. Courage is being a lamb standing with poise among dragons.

Don’t run from your weakness, you will only give it strength.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.

Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.

Instant Karma is going to get you.

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.

Pain. I seem to have an affection, a kind of sweettooth for it. Bolts of lightning, little rivulets of thunder. And I the eye of the storm.