I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.

If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

We've got babies raising babies, and it's important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.

You can want and hope, or you can make it happen.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

I was hurting. I had some ailments I was dealing with. It's not like I was holding out.

I listen to myself. I listen to my body, my mind, I follow my heart.

I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a kidney disease, I wouldn't have won a world championship.

I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.

Darkness gathered there, smothering out the sunlight. As the fleet headed towards it, it threatened to smother them too.

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.

Go further than you planned. Ask for the moon: you will be surprised how often you get it

The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.

Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.