I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

Editing fiction is like using your fingers to untangle the hair of someone you love.

A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!

The tears of God are the meaning of history.

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?

All things are bound together. All things connect.

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

Your Majesty— Tugging my ear. Whenever.

Wealth has never yet sacrificed itself on the altar of patriotism.

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.