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...

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind's invention, your mind's exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is...

There was no jealousy on the part of a new spouse over the love or affection a man or woman shared with a former spouse. It was considered a blessing to have had such loves in one's life.

Never argue with a mother who's scolding her child.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either

At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.