Life is not about waiting for the storm to subside. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.
I’ve never worried about my color. I never had the black thing. If the whole world was like this, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe it is. I don’t have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
Sometimes it’s strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I’m surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.
Picking your nose does not make you a bad person. It is what you do afterward that defines you.
The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn’t know what all the yelling was about. I didn’t realize that my body was moving. It’s a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, ‘What’d I do? What’d I do?’ And he said “Whatever it is, go back and do it again.
In a rich man’s house, there is no place to spit in his face.
I think now it’s a bit of a shame the real blondes are on the verge of extinction.
How many cars do I have? Do I also have to count the Volvos?
I would like to play for an Italian club, such as Barcelona.
We know the reward is peace on earth, goodwill toward men, but we cannot win it without determination and concerted effort.
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Bitter? No, it’s something we drink.
A good person, there can not be too much of.
I have a small walk-in closet, and it can easily turn into a recycling museum, so I’ve also learned to sort out. When you are as old as I am, it is very important not to get sloppy and wear boring clothes.
If you are not ready to go all the way, why go anywhere at all.
In a rain of dollar bills, anything can be done
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions .
If we think that the way we live is good enough, then we’re completely wrong. You have to be able to doubt so that you can see that it can be done differently.
The 4 day work week is inevitable within our time.
Don’t buy upgrades, ride up grades.
One of the worst things that can happen to a journalist is a belief in authority.
My legacy is that I stayed the course… from start to finish because I believed in something inside of me.
Now they just have to stop coming up with all sorts of weird ideas. You do not know what the next thing they think we should do is. Whether we’re going to run through fire or something. I sat and thought a bit about an idea one could give to them. Maybe the day after tomorrow or in a few days, they will do a stage where we do not know when there are goals. They say it is between 1 cm. and 300 km. and then all of a sudden it’s some man with a flag – maybe a dwarf. And then the stage is over.