I think race has been a burden for black Americans. Being Muslim has also been a challenge because so many people do not understand Islam.

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

Do I dare Disturb the universe?

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

What is another person's pleasure is another's poison.

Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty, nay.

Every extreme attitude is a fight from the self.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

I get up because there is just so much out there and you just don't know what's going to happen, that's the great thing.

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone's skin.