"Contrary to most people’s beliefs, music is in me, forever. I can recall it at any moment with utter precision."

“Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.”

“Do good work and let that speak for itself. Don't waste time arguing with someone. Instead, show them in your work. That's easier said than done, but it really is the best solution. No one can argue with good work.”

“Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.”

“If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.”

“Every man has a wild beast within him.”

Source : Letter to Voltaire (1759)

“I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.”

“Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.”

“I envy my daughter's childhood.”