“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

“Life is a long lesson in humility.”

“It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

“Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.”

“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.”

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”

“In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.”

“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

“I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.”

“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.”

“So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.”

“Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.”

“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”

“Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.”

“One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”