Becoming a public figure gave me a platform to help people.

If you constantly dwell on the past that's where you end up living.

I've always been very hopeful but I also know that as long as you've got a good work ethic, almost anything is achievable and I learned that in the armed forces.

I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.

After I was injured, I had several good examples of "Get on with it, stop whinging and life can be what you make it," because the world doesn't stop turning when you have a boo-boo.

When I bought out my first autobiography I received the biggest tax bill of my life.

I prefer cash but so many places only take cards these days, it forces you down a line and I don't like that.

Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.

When I get angry, I start thinking about the people involved and they don't deserve my time.

I've had well-paid jobs, but in comparison to what footballers earn, I've not earned serious money.

Everyone in my family was a very serious worker, always with a determination to provide for each other.

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow.

The notation is more important than the sound. Not the exactitude and success with which a notation notates a sound; but the musicalness of the notation in its notating.

If you truthfully can say without a doubt within your heart Dear Lord, Thy will be done, and God knows best!

The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.

'The Goonies' is the one that everyone either remembers themselves or their children are seeing now.

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.