They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life.

I lived my life one way for 35 years, for me. And then the focus came in on what I really was.

It's hard when your father's the coach. Sometimes you don't know where one leaves off and the other begins.

My life had no meaning at all. I found only brief interludes of satisfaction. It was like my whole life had been about my whole basketball career.

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

I accomplished what I set out to do, but I lost my discipline and my career.

I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.

Most of my career was negative.

Shooting is nothing. Anybody can shoot. The big charge is putting on a show for the crowd.

When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to strike if I did not pan out and prove myself to be the showman and the player the college ranks had labeled me to be.

I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.

I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.

Well I tried to, but I could never write anything that I liked or was worthwhile. I threw it all out and realized that I had to make a serious study- that my tastes were far more advanced than my abilities.

People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Acting to me is always reacting.

The fans have played a massive part in getting us to where we are, but the job's not finished.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

Anybody who claims to read the entire paper every day is either the world's fastest reader or the world's biggest liar.

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.

What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.

Mountains are like stationary fountains of serenity.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

Wherever we play golf, people come out here to get autographs. They obviously come out to watch us play and see us in action, but they also want to interact with us.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.

The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.

I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.

But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.

I just discovered the Santa Monica flea market, every Sunday. I go weekly. There's a lot of interesting things there.

I was such a punk.