Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great.

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

It comes down to competitiveness. I hate to lose. We want people in our organization that hate to lose - that want to compete every single day, so you continue to strive to win.

If you work with people that are bringing you up constantly - really bright, really passionate people - you can't help but get pulled in that direction.

You stay elite by constantly moving forward.

If you like who you work with, who you interact with every day, you're going to accomplish better things.

If you can build a team full of high-quality people, and you bring aboard someone who may lack qualities, they're probably likely to go in the right direction.

In the Book of Life, The answers aren't in the back.

Sometimes it's the memories we should have had that are most painful.

Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

If people don't like [my film], the ship's sailed. There's nothing I can do about that.