It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.

Never indulge in small lucrative things that stand in the way of your long term goals.

It's not darkness that turns off the lights in your life, it's your sadness that does it.

The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism

People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.

Letting go of its good players, like Özil, the ones who know how to play football – that did surprise me.

I appreciate this moment in time...ball players and actors be knowing my rhymes

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

I live for the nights that I can't remember with the people that I won't forget.

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

From the age of three on, as far back as I remember, I just knew there was a God behind everything.