The last five or six days, I've been running. The last two days, I've been running pretty hard. Everybody's got to be someplace.

To love someone is nothing, to be loved by someone is something, to love someone who loves you is everything.

Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

Learning is a daily experience and a lifetime mission. I truly believe in the saying "We work to become, not to acquire."

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

If a guy pays you five dollars, you give him seven dollars worth of work.

You can do anything you want to do if you want it bad enough

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Many writers were better before they became famous.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

The most attractive thing that I've seen in the creative realm is the enthusiasm in people that does not seem to burn out. That's what I'm after.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.

The best songs of this [modern] period - the apocalyptic "High Water," for example - return [Bob] Dylan to where he was in his first phase, updating and transforming American traditional music.

You know everyone loves to hate a happy pair of lovebirds.

The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.