Great players never look in the mirror and think I'm a great basketball player. You ask yourself, Am I the best player I can be?

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

When you reproduce yourself, you don’t spend your life, you multiply it.

Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.

Your thoughts can torture you-but not the dead. They've moved on.

Ciss says, 'People have less emotions than actors think they have. For much of the time we hide our emotions, we haven't time for emotions. Our brains work so much faster than our emotions.

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

Twitchy little ferret, aren't you, Malfoy?

The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.