I wasn't strong when I was young. The puck was maybe too heavy. I guess I tried to move the puck from side to side to keep from getting hit.

In Russia, we had tough times. Only one puck, I always wanted the puck, so I learn how to keep it and make space and get puck when other guy has it.

I say no words... I can't speak with him. I shy. He too good.

When I came to North America, it was hard. It was hard to understand, hard to get someone to understand me. I only knew Russian. I studied French in school, but it didn't help. I forgot most of that.

When I started shooting it just gives my partners more chances for rebounds. It opens up more room.

I don't remember those early playoff games. Keep it positive. I'm a different player. More focused. I know how important it is to score in the playoffs.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

If you are happy, happiness will come to you because happiness wants to go where happiness is.

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

New fiction writers are a special breed in my estimation, and I never dreamed that so many people would be interested, but I remember being led by God