"Sometimes the most important conversations are the most difficult to engage in."

“Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.”

Source : Michael Marshall Smith (1998). “One of Us”, Bantam

“On the seventh day God rested. His grandchildren must have been out of town.”

“Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.”

“I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.”

“A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.”

Source : Shirley Maclaine (2010). “Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation”, p.1, Bantam

“Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.”

“We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe.”

Source : Neville Chamberlain's "Peace For Our Time" Speech in front of 10 Downing St., eudocs.lib.byu.edu. September 30, 1938.

“Im just trying to be positive. I like the guys (Im) around. Even though were not at the record Id like to be, even after a loss, guys are mad, but then we have fun and you move on. They look up to me. Ive been around eight years. A lot of these guys were in junior high or high school when I came into the NBA. I see how much of an influence I am off the court. I try to be careful how I approach things on and off the court, because I know these guys are watching.”