Everything is in the way the material is composed.

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

...but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.

How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.

We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.

Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.

What others say about you is irrelevant. You define who you are.

Core values serve as a lighthouse when the fog of life seems to leave you wandering in circles

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves.

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.

The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

The poor look for jobs while the rich build networks

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.