Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.

Dreams are so important. You need to have big goals and expect a lot of yourself but you have to enjoy the ride too.

I promise to play for the logo on the front, not the name on the back

It didn't feel like it was anything too major, but if you had to look at one hit that would be it.

I don't think there's ever a time where I step back and say I wish I was something different. I'm doing what I love to do.

I try to stay pretty level-headed and just do what I have to do.

Wouldn’t it be amazing, getting up everyday and playing; doing something that you love to do?

Love isn't lying, it's loose in a lady who lingers, saying she is lost, and choking on hello.

I've always had a passion for hockey, ... That's the key. You can't be putting in time. You have to enjoy doing what you do.

I want to be the best. So whatever comes with that, I have to accept it.

I am putting pressure on myself to do my best and perform to my potential.

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

Glamour is back, but with a minimalist touch.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple.

I didn't know at the time I was writing Because of Winn-Dixie where the story came from, but in retrospect I can see that it was a response to a terribly harsh winter here in Minnesota.

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.