The triangle is a foundation to an offense.

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.

The triangle is a foundation to an offense.

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.

Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand in the back and listen, observe, and get a general sense of the room.

I think we will be safer when we can concentrate law enforcement and criminal justice resources and energies on those individuals who truly need, for the safety of society... to be incarcerated.

An Olympic medal is much better than a world record, and so is a world championship or Commonwealth Games medal.

Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

Britain's destiny lies in Europe.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesnt keep his hands dirty.

My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commercial world. He looked down on pop culture. I definitely got the impression that pop was evil and that Britney Spears was evil.

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

Find something you love and go for it with all your heart. No excuses, no plan B. Never settle for anything less than you know you can do.It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.

'I don't want to grow up', Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

I'm a working actor, so I do pretty much whatever comes along because it's my job.

It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?

Acting and performing music is exactly the same. Therefore, an actor, for instance, who is very impressive, he's not simply imitating or trying to imitate, but he must dominate this kind of feeling, and then he transmits it in a much stronger way.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.

I'm not going to complain to New Yorkers about working too hard.

I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.