They don't understand that I'm just choosing to be dumb. I'm not dumb. I'm just choosing not to be smart at the moment, but if I put in effort, then I could be really smart, but I choose not to.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Going viral isn’t random, magic, or luck. It’s a science.

Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.

The bank of love is never bankrupt.

Birthday Soup is good to eat, but not as good as Birthday Cake.

I can smell blood, Elena, ” Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. “Are you trying to flirt?

Easy come, easy go... "Achieve-everything-while-doing-nothing" schemes don't work, they are just not logical

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

Suddenly it was fall, the season of death, the anniversary of things-going-to-hell.

Always keep your eye on your opponent, and never let yourself be deceived by ruses.

We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.