I heave the basketball; I know it sails in a parabola, exhibiting perfect symmetry, which is interrupted by the basket. It's funny, but it is always interrupted by the basket.

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.

Teaching comes through the head, learning happens through the heart.

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.

People don't need a reason to make a bad decision

I wasn't listening to that much classical music - not much more than anything else. I was really lucky to have parents who loved all kinds of music.

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

Lentil dhal is the only thing I can cook.

I love attention. I love going to events and photo shoots... I enjoy it all; the clothing, the makeup, the excitement.

Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.