I can get better. I haven't reached my ceiling yet on how well I can shoot the basketball.

There's more to me than just this jersey I wear, and that's Christ living inside of me.

If you don't fall how are you going to know what getting up is like.

Success is not an accident, success is actually a choice.

Each game is an opportunity to be on a great stage and be a witness for Christ. When I step on the floor, people should know who I represent, who I believe in.

Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.

Basketball isn't just a sport. It is an art, one that must be mastered to succeed.

I'm not the guy who's afraid of failure. I like to take risks, take the big shot and all that.

Success comes after you conquer your biggest obstacles and hurdles.

Every time I rise up, I have confidence that I'm going to make it.

I think to think. Not to be thought-full, or to reach a point of wisdom or acquire a grace of knowledge. I think for the sensuality of thought.

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

For he who loses all often easily loses himself.

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Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.