I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

..And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried

The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world free from struggle.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

How wondrously supernatural, And how miraculous this! I draw water, and I carry fuel.

Conciseness is underrated

They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done.

Make a difference about something other than yourselves.