To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight.

No far from it. Faaaaarrr from that.

I'd just say you hurt me and you hurt me only because you involved my family. But after that I'd say 'hey draw nearer to your family because that's exactly what I did.'

You never know what kind of impact you can have on someone by just saying hello.

My girlfriend always told me, 'Send roses while they can still smell them, tell people you love them while they can still hear.'

I want my teammates to understand that when No. 5 says something to you, that means it's very important because he doesn't talk a lot. If I'm saying something to you, it's going to help you.

She had to force herself to ‘get on with it’ or she would build a wall in her way so fast she would never get past it.

If not us, then who?If not now, then when?

Passion towards a dream is the fuel that fires every trace of impossibility in the environment, paving way for you to win with style.

Death is Perfection's reflection. One cannot be the other, but without one, the other suffers.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

If you want to stay youthful, stay useful.

Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?

I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in my senior year there, I took a long fiction workshop with Toni Morrison. I fell in love with it.

I've busted a million Europeans

I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.