Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

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

the quality of your mind depends on the quality of your thought

When rogues fall out honest men get into their own.

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle of the night and wake up and it happens. I write what I want in my journal.

Number one is that it just scares people! Your hair is standing up on your arms, or at least that there's a few moments when you're jumping. That's what makes it a good horror movie.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

The world is not always ours to understand.

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.

Nowadays they say you need a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.