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

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.

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.

I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.

God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.

Love as a river loves the ocean.

Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and loves you and commands you to love yourself.

My compulsive thoughts aren't even thoughts, they're absolute certainties and obeying them isn't a choice.

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you’re not out there, you’ll only hear about it.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.

I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God.

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.