The combination of power, optimism and abstract thinking makes powerful people more certain. The more cut-off they are from others, the more confident they are that they are right.

You cannot fix a problem that you refuse to acknowledge.

When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.

according to the psychologist irving Janis, is that our sense of belonging (which makes us feel safe) blinds us to dangers and encourages greater risk-taking.

Inspiring passion in family and friends has more enduring value than just staying alive for them.

A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

I can't stand the crap that gets talked by everyone - Players, Fans, The Media, Club Officals. Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me

I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

To Sorrow I bade good-morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me, and so kind.

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.