I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

Yelling doesn't get your point across, it only makes it louder.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

People don't realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.

I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.

The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.

Regardless of the obstacles or hurdles that are ahead of you, regardless of the opponent, regardless of the odds, your goal and objective always is to win. I think that's part of sports.

True art is a remedy of curiousity and it rise above all expectations.

If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.

Belief is the death of intelligence.

I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.

No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.

I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on the road singing all the songs from the first album, I got kind of tired of that.

It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.