The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

Driveway basketball, playing against the boys, watching Magic and Michael.

Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror....

Pardon ever follows sincere repentence.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.

I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.

You words affect generations after you. Speak blessings and favor over them.

They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.

We are trying to get a border wall to protect millions of low income Americans against folks who aren't supposed to be here. So, it's a national security.

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

I thought I’d been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing Y.A.