"Authenticity is about being true to who..." - Quote by Michael Jordan

“I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.”

“I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.”

“Success doesn't stop when you get there”

“Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.”

“I've struggled enough in my life to be appreciated and understood. I've had to go against all kinds of people through the years just to be myself. I think everybody should be allowed to be who they are, and to love who they love. I don't think we should be judgmental. Lord, I've got enough problems of my own to pass judgment on somebody else.”

“English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets,--Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included,--breathes no quite fresh and, in this sense, wild strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome. Her wildness is a greenwood, her wild man a Robin Hood. There is plenty of genial love of Nature, but not so much of Nature herself. Her chronicles inform us when her wild animals, but not the wild man in her, became extinct.”

“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”

“Simple, like uncarved wood.”

“Every story you tell is your own story.”