I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

I made a horrendous mistake not apologizing to my wife.

You can be a hero to someone just by being their friend.

Sometimes in life, you will get knocked down.

I was taught that I cannot back down to anything. I was trained never to be scared.

It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter.

Hey diddle diddle, Ray Rice up the middle.

I want to be someone that kids in my community look up to and want to strive to give back when they grow up.

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.

I just want to thank [my wife] for loving me where I was weak.

I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.

Men are the product of their historical experience, limited in their choices by who and where they are in history.

When we are able to realize that life is endless and not ephemeral and that life is transformational and not static—then all fears will vanish from our hearts.

when I finally begin to driftinto sleepyour memory is the...firstand the moonlightthe last, to kiss my face.

Only a changed person can live according to the law

As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.

Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

In all things seek to know God's Will and when known obey at any cost.

I never taught him to break him thumb." "That's Gansey for you. Only learns enough to be superficially competent." "Loser," Ronan agreed, and he was himself again.

How can an unsteady mind make itself steady? Of course it cannot. It is the nature of the mind to roam about. All you can do is to shift the focus of consciousness beyond the mind.