Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

It's not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let's put it on display and have some fun.

You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

Follow your dreams and make the most of every experience.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.

An element of wisdom is knowing that life experiences are blood brothers with climate change, whether you have the resources to detect weather changes, it can still surprise you anytime.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

In the state of nature... all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

Celebritys a pain in the backside - youre always on display.

To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot.