I am not a passenger in anything I do. I am and always will be a leader.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.

I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.

Nothing means more to me than helping my team win.

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.

Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.

You have to work hard at things.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

A rose would be miserable if it was forced to be a daisy, no matter how much water it was fed.

Tensurrealism creates actual and non-compromised reality, jamboree, fervor, fascination, poetics of an active enthusiasm, interludium, lyrical practice, active happiness.

Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

You have to think with the heart.

Though he’d never know for sure what had happened to them, his mind was super talented at imagining the absolute worst.

Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

Nothing replaces being in the same room, face to face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.

Ozone and climate are global issues, and it's hard to find a way in which the benefits of shutting down carbon emissions are going to pay for themselves for any given power-plant, say.

Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!