I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

Some people are oil and water.

Joseph moved to prove his sincerity in his vision-they moved ahead to invalidate his sincerity and what they think is his imaginative illusion.

To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic.

By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

The new European Soviet.

If the intention is unclean, the deed that follows from it will also be evil, even if it seems good.

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

My experience working with lots of creative people is that they don't lose their artistic edge when they lose a fierce level of anguish. They just create from a different place.