Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.

If not the best, than at least one of the best.

You can't control a superstar that has an ultimate green light. That's impossible.

For me, growing up I watched Michael Jordan win all those championships, and I dreamed of being in that same spot one day. So to actually be here, and have one under my belt is an amazing feeling.

When I'm out in public I need to be a role model for the kids. I need to be someone they can look up to or portray themselves as.

You should always be challenging yourself to see how high you can elevate yourself above the masses.

Is there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world?

That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.

Gratitude is like love or fresh air - you can't get too much of it.

And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes

Many a man in his hour of trial has turned to the Book of Mormon and been enlightened, enlivened, and comforted. The psalms in the Old Testament have a special food for the soul of one in distress.

War is a calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.

It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.

Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.

When you understand how the mind-brain functions together, you know that faith, which is believing before seeing, is the natural process of creation.