You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure.
I'm always going to make sure I'm doing the right things.
I'm not saying [racial profiling] doesn't happen; I'm saying I haven't experienced it.
Anybody can say they want to be the greatest ever. I take pride in it. If you're around me long enough and watch me work, that's what I'm striving for. I won't stop until I am.
I try to act as a man of character if no one is watching or if the world is watching.
The one thing I learned early on as a football player is people have their opinions, and I can't change them. But I can show them what they're missing.
People have assumed that I have to run the ball before I can throw it most all of my career, all the way back before high school. It's a stereotype put on me for a long time because I'm African-American and I'm a dual-threat quarterback. I don't know why that stereotype is still around. It's about talent and the ability to throw the ball, not the color of your skin or your ability to also be a dangerous runner.
. . . no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.
I used to write things that might have sounded better coming out of an older person's voice or vision. Hence, "grandpa-boy. " I'm an old man, but I'm a boy. A really old boy!
I always loved science and math growing up. I was born in Iran; I grew up there and then came to the United States when I was about 16 years old. And I thought that this was my opportunity to get involved with something really cool and great.
When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At the slightest breeze, with the smallest ripple in the waters, the lake reflects nothing but itself. To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness. The slightest breeze of judgment or interpretation from the rational mind will create a ripple that shatters Awareness and returns us to ordinary perception.