19 quotes
college basketball player (2000–2001) Northwestern
“Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
on Dreams
"Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly."
"Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you."
on Humor
"I've known rivers:I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
on Life
"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
"Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow."
"Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be."
on Faith
"Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves."
on Art
"LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words."
on Freedom
"So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born."
on Love
"Out of love,No regrets--Though the goodnessBe wasted forever.Out of love,No regrets--Though the returnBe never."
"God in his infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-So when my actions are stupidThey hardly take God by surprise."
on Wisdom
"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."
on Success
"What happens to a dream deferred?"
"An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose."
"Joe has sense enough to knowHe is a god.So many gods don't know."
on Identity
"The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water."
on Nature
"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it."