“There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.”

We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.

Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.

You can’t be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.

I wanna be the best, simple and plain.

Thank god, I’m not from this world.

I don’t think a coach becomes the right coach until he wins a championship.

I was an idiot when I was a kid.

I’m focused on the task that lies ahead for us.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

I’ve pretty much done all I can here and, you know, God will carry me the rest of the way, so I’m pretty comfortable with that.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, I said, ‘Man, look, I’m going to be that one in a million.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

If you want to make history, you have to do historic things.

When you start training camp, you’re building the tools necessary to win a championship. You have to have the patience.

slavery was a system that depended on the creation of deep levels of fear.

Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.

I trust work, directors – I don’t live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

You cannot believe in peace at home and not believe in international peace. A war with Iraq will increase anti-American sentiment, create more terrorists, and drain as much as 200 billion taxpayer dollars, which should be invested in human development here in America.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.

Daddy taught us through his philosophy of nonviolence, which placed love at the centerpiece, that through that love we can turn enemies into friends. Through that love, we can create more dignified atmospheres.