As a matter of fact I've been asked to come when I'm free to play at the White House.

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.

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

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.

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

Being sensitive is a gift that fosters peace. Help create a kinder, gentler world by embracing it.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.

It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

Nobody trusts the industrial food system to give them good food.

Eccentricity gives misfits a way of fitting in.

Live by faith and not by fear.