I'm just saying I'm being myself, and people understand that.

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.

You should write about take no-shit women like me. Girls need to know they can break the rules" p.79

Tis the most tender part of love each other to forgive.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

For good or ill, I'm a person of leadership. I do my best. I don't dodge responsibility.

I want everybody to hear loud and clear that I'm going to be the president of everybody.

Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very seductive lie, and we're still entranced by it.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from.

The more you look, the more you will see.

I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the central concern in our elected bodies.