Ridiculous stuff happens when I travel.

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.

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

I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.

You can’t conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness of the mercy of God.

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)

Humility is the key characteristic of a worship leader. Actually, the key for any great leader.

Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.

I want my pictures to cut through political abstractions... and make a connection on a human level.

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.

I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing I had to an interactive, theatrical experience.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.