Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

A good leader must be fair.

Endangered species are our friends.

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

When I was young, we were taught not to dunk. We were taught not to stand out from the rest of the team. It's different now.

Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive it can make your day a little better.

Only elephants should own ivory.

Hometown is like my quilts. Sometimes when you are in sweet dreams you dont feel its comfortable.

When you get back to fundamental questions - 'Why should anything exist?' A, I'm not sure what the answer is in terms of the science, and B, I'm not sure that science can even ask that question.

Haiti has changed a lot.

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have.

Franchises and chains have come to dominate small communities, but those same chains have eliminated a lot of the greasy spoons, places you didn't want to eat in the first place.

And, as soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.

Non-proliferation will only work if all states are willing to cooperate, and that will only happen if all feel they are being treated fairly.

Freediving can be extremely dangerous. It's got an incredibly high fatality rate outside of competition. But there's never been a fatality in competition. In terms of spear fishing and people who train by themselves, it's the second most dangerous sport in the world after base jumping. If you black out by yourself, you drown.

I love making lists.

After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyke is of the company.

We don't suggest that because San Francisco lies on top of an earthquake fault that it should be moved.

I am not a morning person.

Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.

Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman.

I have to reinvent myself.

My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.

I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.