I'm not big on looking back beyond the moment in which decisions and events occur. I'm always pushing forward.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

It's not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let's put it on display and have some fun.

You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.

Follow your dreams and make the most of every experience.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.

There is bound to be a regression toward the mean.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

If I decided I'm the girl to change the world, I can do it anytime.

When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America s disabled in 1965, about half of a seniors health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes.

How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.