Petty things don't bother me as much as they used to.

Make it a point to be around those with positive energy - people who want what's best for you, people who understand your goals and priorities.

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

Femininity and sport can go together.

I'm happy and at peace with where I am at life.

I like being on the floor, listening in on the huddles. It makes me feel like a player again.

Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.

Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.

Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.

I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff.

I am a Warrior of Virtue, Nenya, the Water Warrior. Ardan is safe at last. That is all that matters. That is all that will ever matter...

Enlightenment is when a laptop comes to know that it is a laptop.

Unless you find the fundamental cause and treat that, the same problem will surface later on in a different form.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

I'm just saying, tonight, if you're going through a breakup and you're drinking, don't call. Just don't do it. Don't call. Because here's the thing: booze has information in it!

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.

Gratitude gives birth to gratitude and ingratitude creates more ingratitude.

I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.