Everybody dreams about getting to the NBA and everybody dreams about having their own shoe. But when you're the face of a brand, you've got to kind of back off and let it all soak in a little bit.

The harder you work when nobody’s watching the less you bleed when it’s time to perform.

Sometimes you have to change. You know change is always good.

I'm not trying to say that people don't have the right opinion but I have to live my life. And I'm living it and I'm loving it.

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.

It might also count as an insult to dignity, and a form of infantilization, if the government constantly reminds people of things that they already know.

Under the pathologist's microscope, life and death fight in an illuminated circle in a sort of cellular bullfight. The pathologist's job is to find the bull among the matador cells

You've got to have fun on the court. If you ain't having fun, then basketball ain't fun.

I run each day to preserve the self I attained the day before and to secure the self yet to be.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

It is no easy matter to say commonplace things in an original way.

I guess that's why they call it Hell.

Listen with grace, with no judgment, without imposing the law.

If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.