My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.

All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine.

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to failure right from the start.

Daemons had minds of their own, which could never be harnessed, even by those who sheltered them.

Through life's journey, may your feet rest on solid ground, your hands touch the prize of life, and your heart find contentment.

If you babble enneagram, I am a five. If you boast myers-briggs, I am an introvert-intuition-thinking-perceiving.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.

I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.

It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.

Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things.

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.