Playing sick. That is so hard to do. It has to be a total mental challenge, as well as the physical challenge.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Don't be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.

Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

When we are sick our virtues and our vices are in abeyance.

I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

I tend not to use the humor which would only apply to Koreans, or which would only affect the Koreans, as much as I can.

Everyone knows that senior citizens are stupid

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.