Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

Rule #1 of Traveling-Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"?

Cheating is not an accident. It's a choice.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

I'm hoping for a return to at least partial sanity someday, but I'm not optimistic.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

Have a strong vision about the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it.

The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.

Kobe's heart is as strong as his muscles.