I don't trust what this life has given me.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

You can love me or you can hate me.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

There's no image we can't improve.

What do we free spirits want? We just want to think our own thoughts and feel our own feelings. Why should that be a problem for anyone else?

Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself.

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

I get nice letters, but really I have no idea. I just try to enthuse people. You've been married for 31 years.

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.

I still have a fantasy of being a musician when I grow up.

As a writer, I play with words all day long. I toy with them, listen for their overtones, crack them open, and try to stuff my thoughts inside.

Every day, there's a new development. ... There's no limit to the things that are happening.