I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

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

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

The king stood in a pool of blue light, unmoored.

I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Everyone wants to change, but no one wants to do anything differently.

The institution of marriage is obsolete.

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.

Children at certain ages have distinct actions, and boys at certain ages have a particular way of acting too.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are