I respect people's feelings when they say they love me, but it is completely their choice of expression, and I am alien to it. People have a right to express, but that's it.

It is always disappointing to obviously concede.

If I feel like I am being thrown under the bus, how am I supposed to get up and come for a party to enjoy the team's or team-mate's success?

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

I have that look like I'm going to tear your head off. As a younger guy, I think I had that look even more and had a reputation for being in your face a lot, but as I've gotten older I think I've...

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

When the team is losing, you can become upset and mixed up, shying away from the play, and lose control.

What skills I lacked in, say, math or science, I like to think I made up for in my ability to read people and situations with great clarity. I therefore considered myself as a sort of valued...

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

Having a sweet, wide-eyed, awkward character is more charming and allows for more range. If you come from anger, you're going to reach a ceiling very quickly.

Contempt is the only asymmetrical expression in the muscular facial system: Disgust, fear, happiness, surprise, and anger typically express themselves symmetrically. Contempt is marked by one lip...

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same...

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from....

I wish I had more patience.

It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

People confuse ego, lust, insecurity with true love.

You can't force anyone to love you or to lend you money.

Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around us in awareness.

A wise and an understanding heart.

You may be cool under pressure and challenge, but can you be cool under success?

Every promise we kept, every squeeze of the hand, every secretive smile we exchanged, every crying child we comforted - every one of those moments narrowed the distance between us.

When the eye becomes the heart, the heart becomes the eye.

Inasmuch as you cannot predict if and when you will be disappointed, once it happens you have only two choices: You can either let it consume you, until you become bitter and resentful. Or, you can...

Life may become difficult when you are out of sync with your heart - felt desires.

There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness unblocks the future. {p.225}

It had been a big mistake, introducing her to Tavi on one of his visits home. She had fallen hard and made up every conceivable excuse to turn up at our place that week. Tavi had taken it in his usual...