"I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears."

"I wasn't a great player in college, but I was a very good high school player. It really shaped a lot of what I do as a basketball coach now."

"I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with."

"I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit."

"I've been so fortunate in my life that my family has never been jealous of my success. They have shown true love and commitment to me by being supportive. They shared in it."

"This is the first team we played all year that could really block shots like that. Their ability to block shots made us change some shots inside. And I don't know if we ever adjusted to that."

"It was a great individual accomplishment."

"A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play."

"Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation."

"Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need."

"Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable."

"Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing."

"First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity."

"I always wanted to teach."

"I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one."

"I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly."

"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."

"Just think how many thoughts a blanket smothers while one lies alone in bed, and how many unhappy dreams it keeps warm."

"Kill me, or you are a murderer."

"Written kisses don't reach their destination, rather they are drunk on the way by the ghosts."

"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached."

"What am I doing here in this endless winter?"

"You are free and that is why you are lost."

"God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."

"All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else."

"My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted."

"It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable."

"The limited circle is pure."

"April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never."

"The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speaks he lies."

"Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire."

"I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more"

"I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity."

"Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light."

"They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves."

"People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as 'nauseatingly miserable beyond repair'."

"Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made."

"There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness."

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

"You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state."

"It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle."

"Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment."

"Evil is whatever distracts."

"So eager are our people to obliterate the present."

"Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live."

"The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write."

"Please — consider me a dream."

"Yours (now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)"

"You can choose to be free , but it's last decision you'll ever make"

"I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things."