I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.

When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.

Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

Because CoEd's doing incredible work in Guatemala so how can I not #tieoneon?

If you're passionate about life, and you love what you do, you learn how to organize yourself and switch your various sides on and off.

Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.

I will be the first black James Bond.

book variables, student variables, and school variables.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

I'm running out of words to describe this lad.

The Soul should always stand ajar.

Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.

Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others' shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.

I’m not a warrior or a goddess,” I said at last. Adrian leaned closer. “As far as I’m concerned, you’re both.

~I'm really clear about my priority in life - it's being a mom ... I love doing films, but I wouldn't like to do that more than I'd like to be my daughter's mother.~

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.