I hope that I've been able to treat people with the respect they've shown me. That's basically the tenet you try to live by. I haven't been successful at it all my life, but that's what I strive for.

Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.

I came from a world where when you say something, you understand that your words have weight, and you say things that you truly believe.

That makes you a better player, when you go through the process of seeing what other teams are doing to you.

It doesn't help me to burn bridges, but I'm not going to sit back and be given blame when I don't deserve it.

If you don't work your brain turns to cheese.

Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time...

I never expected to adapt so quickly, but if you are a foreigner it's up to you to adapt to English football because you can't change it. I think I've achieved something in the way I adapted.

I feel like I've grown a lot.

My prayers are being answered for my career. These are prayers I've been praying for as a kid.

Faith idles when character shrivels.

In the past, my success has come with sticking to one plan. That usually works. Obviously it's going to falter, and I'm going to go into slumps here and there, but stick with the plan, and hopefully...

Different people bring out different aspects of one's personality.

Helping other people develops your leadership skills, and people start to see you as a natural leader.

You can only learn from the best players out there, the best people, best idols, role models, whatever you want to call them.

My father claimed I could read before I went to school. I sucked up knowledge and read the Children's Britannica Encyclopaedia from cover to cover when I was eight.

No matter how extreme I've had to be, no matter how eccentric people perceive me to be, because I'm outside the norms, demonstrating that age can be arrested would change everything.

I'm looking to try to do more out there and just taking advantage of the opportunities that I've been given.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons....

I was never ideological in any sense, or a slave to any particular politics or religion. My solace and my inspiration always came from books and literature.

My base will show up in earthquakes.

Ultimately, I'd love to be able to work in film.

I feel as though I have established myself at Liverpool and I am enjoying it.

Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern...

The ancient universities were not based on how many credit hours you're taking or whether you've completed your credit hours. Instead, they focused more on customized, personalized learning... where...

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty...

When you're improvising, you connect with people in a way you don't in normal life, strangely.

My parents had two rules: You had to go to college, and you had to pay for it yourself. So we all did.

I definitely have not had a linear path. I have had more of a path where I've meandered with a sense of purpose. Really, what that means is it's about being true to your convictions and your passions...

If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.