I've wanted to hit Jay Cutler so hard for so long that this move just makes sense.

How can you say you want to be somewhere when you're not really sure if they want you there because they're not even talking to you?

I'm out to prove something-that I'm all for real and that I can do it on my own without any help.

If you can't beat them (Packers), You might as well join them

Right now I feel like playing as long as I can, As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

I want to maximize my potential as a player. I want to be as good as I could possibly be. And if I do that, I think I could be one of the best players out there.

As a kid, I never thought I saw myself as unusual. I always thought that lots of people could do what I did. More and more I realized I was wrong.

I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.

Once I really maximize my potential-I don't know when that'll be, a year from now, three or four years from now-I think I can be one of the great ones.

I want to be my own player. I want to be Julius Peppers. I don't want to be the next Lawrence Taylor. I don't want to have to live with his legacy.

Pain, Rhuan decided, did not simply hurt. Pain also exhausted a person, sapped his soul, thinned his spirit. Worse, pain was tedious.

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of whispered tones and sighing harmonies that held him in its force like the earth [holding] the moon.

There’s no point pretending to be someone or something we’re not.

It is virtues that make a man not prosperity.

When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose.

Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.