"We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact"

“He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.”

“Great potential for personal empowerment can be found in attending to our awareness of global problems and to our understanding of how they connect with each other and with our personal lives. The process of naming the danger, saying aloud that the threats to life on earth are real, moves us from the numbness of denial to the aliveness that makes action possible.”

“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”

“My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.”

“Setting goals is good to do, to make your dreams come true for you.”

“Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.”

“If we remain humble and hungry, we can win.”

“As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.”

Source : "Celtic's Neil Lennon: I haven't bettered this Barcelona win in my life" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.