By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

Intelligence may be taken as a necessary, but not sufficient, cause of moral advance. All morally advanced children are bright, but not all bright children are morally advanced.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Every time your picture is taken, you lose a part of your soul.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.