I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.

You keep working hard and the wind will carry you where it needs to carry you, in the direction you need to be.

I was never a guy who came into a new situation on a team being vocal right away. I kind of monitored the situation, observed the situation and then found my role throughout that process.

I wouldn't change my experience for anything. It made me the person I am today. Not just on the court but off the court.

There's never a right way to tell somebody that they've been traded.

I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all the coaches, all the coaching staff.

When I was young, I kept trying to be in the most helpful place for me, when sometimes, as players, you have to look in the mirror and say, "It's not always going to be comfortable."

I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role or filling a role that a team needed.

Loyalty could come only of exchange and mutual regard.

Hillary Clinton's been talking about the inner cities for 25 years. Nothing's going to ever happen.

Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts.

I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle--once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.