Richie Allen Quotes

I've done a lot of things that I regret.

There are different things I've done that I wouldn't do again that kept following me. That's the price that you pay when you make mistakes early on.

If we want to change what people think of us, then we have got to change.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.

You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom. However much that they're told that what they're doing is harming their own life or whatever, you cannot make someone do it unless that person reaches the point where they know that they have to deal with it themselves.

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

My whole story is just about me having a second chance.

I related to 'A Clockwork Orange' in a personal way. I was a bit of a thug growing up. It's taken some reform for me. Thank God for artistry and creativity as an outlet.

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

I have to admit I didn't do as much as I should have back when I was mayor, but now we're getting it done. It's not where you've been but where you're going.

I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too.

People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.