People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

A well-aimed spear is worth three.

Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

If the bears don't get you, it's home.

All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is a subtle form of disease.

The Bulls talked to just about every person who ever met me.

I'm a business person at heart.

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

The eye is inlet to the soul.

Deadlines and things make you creative.

Every time I feel tired while I am exercising and training, I close my eyes to see that picture, to see that list with my name. This usually motivates me to work again.

It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.

I admire Grover Norquist. I think hes done a lot of good.