To miss one year is a long time. I've never been in this situation before, and I'm getting as much information as I can about my foot, to see what's the best for me and best for the Rockets.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.

There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

Friendship first, competition second.

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

Endangered species are our friends.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.

If you only had a year left to live, what book would you write?Now, write that book.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I have literally just been in this place of zero fear. I just believe, as totally hippy bullsh*t as that sounds, anything's possible if you're willing to grab it and make it your own.

My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.

Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.