I want to say thanks to the Chelsea fans because I have seen them very, very happy with me for joining Chelsea.

If football was a drug, I would have died from overdose.

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not.

I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss.

Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.

I don't know what to say about myself. I don't know myself (laughs). People say my humility but I believe we're all humble in our own way. I try to stay close to my family and friends.

I know my statistics have not been the same as in other years but I'm fighting to get back to those statistics.

When I retire, the only thing that concerns me is that no one can say that I was a bad team-mate or disrespectful or self-important.

Liverpool is a fundamental part of my life. They don't remember me that way, but time will change that. I could not have chosen a better place to go when I left Atletico.

If I score against Liverpool I will not celebrate.

Thought is what we start from: the simple, intimate, immediate datum. Matter is the inferred thing, the mystery.

Language is a city, to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

I collapsed to my knees and looked up at the predawn sky. "I hate you, " I said softly."I love you, " the voice whispered back.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases

And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.

No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.