I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me

Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity.

Never let anyone in life tell you that you can't have something that you are willing to work for.

I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow.

Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

Think about winning the day... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.

You can always be a little bit better.

There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.

My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.

Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

but darling if he loved you, would he want to see you cry?

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza, which is my favorite indulgence.

I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?

Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions.

The trend has been mobile was winning. It's now won.

That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.

People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love