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.

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.

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.

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

She must love me, to worry about me. She must still be capable of love.

Every age can be enchanting provided you live within it.

I grew up in Orange County, California, all over the beaches of San Clemente and that area.

We have to recognise that the validation of identity comes through relationships we have and what we produce.

Awareness of the sacred in life is what holds our world together, and the lack of awareness of the sacred is what is tearing it apart.

I don't believe there's an atom of meaning in it.

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

One of the qualities that all the leaders have is a voracious appetite to learn whatever they do not as yet know and understand, coupled with an openness to new experiences.