Going to LSU was the right move for me. It taught me to be independent.

Anytime I mess up, even if it's a simple turnover, that affects me.

I never understood the whole point of opposing or hating someone else's happiness.

My dad taught me that you have to work hard for anything you want in life, and I wanted to be good at playing basketball.

Awards, they come and go. The main thing is it's all about team.

I know there are expectations, but I don't let them affect mt game. I just play basketball.

I just like to play anything that's competitive. If I'm not competing against somebody, then I might as well play something I can enjoy.

That's kind of what I want to do-set my own trend in the basketball world.

You don't have to do all that shakin' and bakin' to get to the goal and make a shot.

I don't think there is a city we've been to that someone didn't know who I was. People know who I am before I touch the ball.

I don't really plan on working a 9-to-5 job. I want to own my own business.

The extra-ordinary secret to success is nothing but ordinary belief.

We are like a drop of love, with crystal clear beauty, charm, joy and dance, like to vanish with the ocean of love to become the ocean

Lucy had to guard her reputation - her reputation for sanity - the way that a woman a hundred years before would have had to guard her reputation for virtue.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas.

Right now, I'm Writing song lyrics. Experimenting with a play. Toying with an idea for a documentary. I hope one of these will eventually be launched into the light of day.

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

If I can learn a couple of phrases in Italian but do mostly weird, absurd music things, people will like it.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

I do think Russian foreign policy is very savvy. There's a need for great caution because the Russians are able to discreetly blackmail countries.