“The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our most compassionate, our great improvers and reformers of society, our most effective fighters against injustice, inequality, slavery, cruelty, exploitation (and also are best fighters for excellence, effectiveness, competence). And it also becomes clearer and clearer that our best 'helpers' are the most fully human persons. What I may call the bodhisattvic path is an integration of self-improvement and social zeal, i.e., the best way to become a better 'helper' is to become a better person. But one necessary aspect of becoming a better person is via helping other people. So one must and can do both simultaneously.”

“Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.”

“If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.”

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”

"People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else."

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation.

Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

I never think that there's something I can't do, whether it's beating my opponent one on one or practicing another hour because something about my game is just not right.

It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.

On the best tactic when playing alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar- Just give him the ball.

Don't give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.

Probably fishing is my first passion.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out

I grew up in Doncaster and have felt the love for football run through the town; it's for that reason that I have a real personal passion to make Doncaster Rovers a success story.

Of course Covarrubias wasn't a negro, but how he caught the darky spirit!

I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.

“That’s what it takes to get what you want. Not big scary leaps once a year. It takes small, but irritating moves every single day.” 

“Passion is not a thing, it's a state of mind.” 

I always breathe cricket.

"Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button."

"He's been great for us, ... He has a passion for the game almost like Bob Johnson. He's really our leader. We need to listen to him."

"Try a little harder to be a little better."