Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked about the importance of making a first impression and that's stayed with me.

Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

You cannot make progress with excuses.

You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn't do in their entire collegiate careers.

I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.

I'm a living testimony that anything is possible.

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.

It's no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others.

I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.

Of course after the fight you want to make sure that you're okay and so is the other guy, it's a brotherhood in there, so you want to make sure everyone is okay after the war is over.

If they came sorrowing, and wanting sympathy in a complicated trouble like the present, then they would be felt as a shadow in all these houses of intimate acquaintances, not friends

I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.

We are all connected and operate within living fields of thought and perception. The world is not fixed but is in constant flux; accordingly, the future is not fixed, and so can be shaped.

I wanted nothing more than to feel something, but I didn't know how to deal with what came after the feeling.

I started teaching myself, taking a breath or a moment that's not overreacting or having an explosion. It made me such a better person. Let alone a better mother, but also just a better human.

I'm not railing, 'This is inadequate' or 'This isn't right.' Just show me what will work.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book; one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, and active and creative reader is a rereader.