When I was young, I kept trying to be in the most helpful place for me, when sometimes, as players, you have to look in the mirror and say, "It's not always going to be comfortable."

You keep working hard and the wind will carry you where it needs to carry you, in the direction you need to be.

I was never a guy who came into a new situation on a team being vocal right away. I kind of monitored the situation, observed the situation and then found my role throughout that process.

I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.

I wouldn't change my experience for anything. It made me the person I am today. Not just on the court but off the court.

There's never a right way to tell somebody that they've been traded.

I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all the coaches, all the coaching staff.

I had to learn from an early age to be observant of how to fit in right away and how to make a transition a lot more smoothly by adjusting to a role or filling a role that a team needed.

There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.

Time bears away all things.

I always like to say that our brand or our philosophy has always been kind of this marriage between the 'food as indulgence, ' and it's also been about 'food as health, ' that food is vitality.

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.

Things never happen the same way twice.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

Human nature will never part with power. Look for an example of a voluntary relinquishment of power from one end of the globe to another - you will find none.

We create stories to define our existence. If we do not create the stories, we probably go mad.