When you are in pain, a moment is an eternity.

In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.

You can never trust anyone once you've had to trap them in a cage.

Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.

Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.

You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.

One cannot apologize for one's nature.

You are stronger than me, " Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.

Though a story may begin as a lie, perhaps it can be made true. Perhapsd their ultimate power is found in how they inspire us to action.

Feast or famine. My plate is suddenly full.

The greatest rivers always find their way to the ocean. Like a ship reaching out to its motherland.

My goal is to let people see who I am as a person, not just a basketball player. Many people see athletes in a certain way - flat and one dimensional. I want to change that view.

Freedom. It's like no constraints, an opening, and then barriers going away and lifting and breaking and experimentation and...it's like attempting for something.

I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.

Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class.

You [should] persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty, because it's the right thing to do.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.