"And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear."

"I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much."

"I think I have a tendency to look at things subjectively rather than objectively when I reflect on my experience."

"When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that."

"Clear thinking requires courage even more than intellect. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

"All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."

"Wisdom principle 73 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 93."