I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

Food - there's no greater gift.

When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.

I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.

When an elevator brings u upstairs, you better send it back down in order to bring others up!

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

It's not easy to teach a child how to win.

Me as a backup center? Hell no.

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.

I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight of longing.

Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.

This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.

The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?

I don't want to open my mouth or speak anymore, because everything I say becomes scandalous. It wears you out.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world.