I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

You don't get better if you win all the time. You look at yourself more when you lose.

My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

Well, I'm not here to live up to anyone else's expectations-I'm here to live up to mine.

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place.

Hiding a wound can cause a serious infection without healing. It has to be exposed and washed. Sure, the cleansing may cause pain at first—but, in the end, it brings healing, as well as relief.

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

Sometimes you have good days, and sometimes you have bad days. It really depends on how much caffeine you've had.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!

When you come, please be so kind as to check your neuroses and psychoses at the gate... Fans and other obnoxious pests would do well to maintain silence.

If you're afraid to be wrong you'll never do anything creative.

I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.