After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

Food - there's no greater gift.

When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.

I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.

When an elevator brings u upstairs, you better send it back down in order to bring others up!

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

It's not easy to teach a child how to win.

Me as a backup center? Hell no.

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

Talk about getting off tangent. My mother's friend may have just killed his wife and my parents are sitting there talking about cows.

Summer, dropping so easily a delicious everything upon your skin and lips. Like a never-ending kiss - taunting, deep, and luscious.

You do not publish your own verses Laelius you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine or else publish your own.

Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.

Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.

It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant

I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children.