What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

The more mistakes, the better the story afterwards. Especially if there's a happy ending.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

Whoso meditates on the Omniscient, the Ancient, more minute than the atom, yet the Ruler and Upholder of all, Unimaginable, Brilliant like the Sun, beyond the reach of darkness.

The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.

The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.

Good listeners believe they can learn something from everyone.

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

Only in the present do things happen.

I see the first lady as another means to keep a president from becoming isolated.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.