Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.

It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Attitude is a choice. Think positive thoughts daily. Believe in yourself.

No one feels strong when she examines her own weakness. But in facing weakness, you learn how much there is in you, and you find real strength.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?

I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy.

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.

Forget [Le Corbusier ]. Forget Modernism. Forget yesterdays' tomorrow.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.

There's people trying to tell me what to do, but I'm not like some marketing scam.

You've got to dig in [and learn about things you don't know] if you want to stay in the conversation.

I’ll just say one word: Icarus. If you get it, great. If you don’t, that’s fine too. But you should probably read more.