If, by the way I play, I can be a role model or encourage someone else, that would be great.

I'm strong, I'm tough, I still wear my eyeliner.

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

I have 'the first' attached to my name in a whole lot of different aspects when it comes to the sport of basketball.

Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.

I'm a better and more educated person because of basketball.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

Well, the first quality of being a good leader is you have to be able to follow. See, a good leader cant just be the leader all the time, I have to be able to follow.

Desire is a frightening thing.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going

With a little leadership, you'd get it in here very quickly, and it could be put to use on the inner cities and lots of other things, and it would be beautiful.

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

Energie is the operation, efflux or activity of any being: as the light of the Sunne is the energie of the Sunne, and every phantasm of the soul is the energie of the soul.

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

I'll finish a body of work and think, "Okay, I got nothing. That was it. I'm done." And then you'll turn a corner and be like, "Oh my God!" And it keeps happening. I feel so lucky.