I just like to play anything that's competitive. If I'm not competing against somebody, then I might as well play something I can enjoy.

Anytime I mess up, even if it's a simple turnover, that affects me.

I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.

My dad taught me that you have to work hard for anything you want in life, and I wanted to be good at playing basketball.

Awards, they come and go. The main thing is it's all about team.

I know there are expectations, but I don't let them affect mt game. I just play basketball.

That's kind of what I want to do-set my own trend in the basketball world.

You don't have to do all that shakin' and bakin' to get to the goal and make a shot.

I don't think there is a city we've been to that someone didn't know who I was. People know who I am before I touch the ball.

Going to LSU was the right move for me. It taught me to be independent.

I don't really plan on working a 9-to-5 job. I want to own my own business.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.

I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.

In terms of being a 'sneakerhead,' there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That's the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what's coming out.

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

If I had to choose a song to listen to before I died, it would be Simone singing Começar de novo.

Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: Some falls are means the happier to arise