Shame on me, for me to have this platform and me to have this opportunity to stand up for something that I thought was unjust, and I passed on it. I can't do that.

There's bad people since the beginning of time. Literally one of the first four human beings was someone who killed somebody. So that's never going to change, unfortunately.

They want everything to be better for their children. I think athletes are starting to see that and that's why they're starting to speak out.

I was willing to put it at risk in order for someone to gain, in order for the situation to get better.

I'm never the kind of person to say what somebody else should do. I'm very much do what you feel to do.

I just take the Cleveland Browns - we are a very close football team. We care about each other, and we understand each other, and we have conversations on everything under the sun.

Some people who make it to where we are, life changes for them, they're treated differently, they're recognized. They're 6-foot-6, 280 pounds and people automatically know what they do for a living.

I honestly think there's people who just perceive me different.

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends--and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

Love is a gamble and sometimes it hurts, but whether you win or lose being in love is a beautiful thing.

Our thoughts make us what we are.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

Everyone needs a little Edward in their life