Confidence is not 'they will like me'. Confidence is 'I'll be fine if they don't'.
Speech is a kind of action, and our words are the tools we use to perform it.
I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.
I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart.
The world is a labyrinth, and we are all just trying to find our way out.