I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.

If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.

I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

I'll say life is simpler.

I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

I lost my way for a long time.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

Convincing a leader of the value of front-line ideas alone is rarely enough for that person to overcome years of entrenched bad habits and to change his management style.

War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

Fatherhood is the most amazing thing that could ever have happened in my life.

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.

You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.

You never get over the fear of writing.

Election night is the easiest time to act like a grownup.