If there is moral insanity, " he said in a conspiratorial whisper, "then there may be the reverse, immoral sanity, if you will, that comes upon one suddenly, like a fever.

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

Your dreams are desperately counting on you to introduce them to their realities.

Why does it take a man's attention to make me see anything good about myself?

New York restaurants are about selling atmospheres.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

"What's the next thing that's going to kill me?" is a mantra for pilots and astronauts.

When we begin to experience our life as the miraculous expression of divinity - not occasionally, but all the time - then we will know the true meaning of success.

Knowledge is pain that's why it hurts to know.

What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.