I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
I was never the big leaper, the dunker, the long and athletic kid who looked the part of a traditional basketball star. Truth be told, I wasn't even considered a top guard coming out of my recruiting class.
I have only ever done athletics. I was only average at school and I have never done any other sport.
My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.
Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.
I don't listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. It's all quite dramatic and atmospheric. You'd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music - I couldn't sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song.
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
Very early in my culinary career, while helping another cook prepare the staff meal, I stirred some chopped raw garlic and herbs into a bowl of leftover lentils. The atonement for this sin was so extreme that I've never repeated it: After being chastised, I spent the next 20 minutes fishing out the minuscule pieces of garlic.
If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.
Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
The type of Alzheimer's Dad has is rare - posterior cortical atrophy or PCA - and it affects his spatial awareness and the way he judges distance. His first symptoms were erratic typing and spelling, but to talk to him, you'd never know there was a problem.
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
I've never been very practical or realistic - I've always felt that if a project seems easy, or even attainable, why pursue it?
There's the chiselled superhero that we're used to seeing and we've all grown up with. But Doctor Who has never been that, which is wonderful. It's attainable in so many ways.
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.
