Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

It's fool's gold if you are winning games and are not playing the right way.

I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything.

As of right now, I have no desire. I've watched several games and played pickup ball thinking I'd have the feeling I'd like to get back, but I didn't have that feeling. I don't really miss the game.

I'm still doing something I love to do.

I meet a lot of people.

I have to be a father first and a husband first.

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.

I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.

Stand out from the crowd, be yourself.

What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their ancestors.

There are so many different walks of life, so many different personalities in the world. And no longer do you have to be a chameleon and try and adapt to that environment - you can truly be yourself.

Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

I'm neither professional fighter nor physicist, therefore on some level I will always consider myself a failure.

Never ruin a good painting with the truth.

I will not let somebody who traffics in bigotry and bullying become president of the United States.

American foreign policy had still not recovered from its victory over communism when George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice took over at the White House in 2001.