Personally, I love training, and getting paid to play football is incredible. Playing the game and working hard is what I have always dreamed of doing.

I’d personally like to see the Human Rights Act go because I think we have had some problems with it

Writing is an act of empathy, a way of stepping into the shoes of others and seeing the world from their perspective

Personally, I don’t believe in limits.

I don’t want to be fake

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve

Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don’t know a single person who doesn’t know at least two of these victims personally.

My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.

This will not be easy because it doesn’t come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible…Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective.

I was always hard on myself for taking things too personally.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am

Without impending on your own personal choice, there are going to be those that wear the hat of religion and those that wear the hat of science. I still don’t really understand why they can’t wear both hats, because personally, I think that they go beautifully together.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors […] I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‘hopey changey’ stuff, she was right, there was nothing there. And it was understood by the people who run the political system, and so it’s no great secret that the US electoral system is mainly a public relations extravaganza…it’s sort of a marketing affair.

I, personally, think there is a real danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture

I personally feel like, if you’re watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it’s really like.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.