I've got to make some decisions just like any other player that has ever played this game, that eventually the clock stops, their basketball clock stops.

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.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.

Whenever people see birds flying through the sky, it's said that they get the urge to go on a journey.

[ Elizabeth II] has immersed herself, in the sense [that] she can speak intelligently about any and all members of the Commonwealth and she has played a role.

Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.

I contend that the problem with transsexualism would best be served by morally mandating it out of existence

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.

It's a gift. Never lend a book.

It's organic. It's like a river. One stream comes in and it meets another stream and becomes the Amazon.