Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

It's not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let's put it on display and have some fun.

You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

Follow your dreams and make the most of every experience.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

Now most people would put this doon tae experience, ye always want what ye cannae have and the things that ye dinnae really gie a toss aboot get handed tae ye oan a plate.

Time is the ultimate democracy. Rich and poor, young and old, male and female: all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

Most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.

Thought must be hidden in the verse like nutritional virtue in a fruit.

I'm the munter of my friends. I've got wonky teeth and a lazy eye. My friend Rob is disgusted I'm a heart-throb.

I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.