I've taken my bumps and bruises, but you've got to be willing to get knocked down and pick yourself up. You can't get discouraged. You can't lose sight of what your goals are.

I always find a couple of hecklers... I'll kinda look at them, stare at 'em, and let them know I can't be stopped.

I think blocking a shot at a crucial point of the game is the most incredible feeling.

I know I'm a good person. I know I can play basketball.

I think if I had one year of college, I'd have done better with the mental part [of the NBA].

I'm a very emotional player. I use emotion because my team feeds off it.

In college you learn about college

If we win, I don't care if I get 20 boards or five boards.

My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

If my team isn't motivated, it's my fault. I can't consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.

I want to be in the best winning situation. I don't want to be around anybody who's just interested in playing out the season and then going home for the summer.

Science...is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.

It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

...no worship is better than apathetic worship.

I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone.

People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.

We are not satisfied with peace alone. There has to be prosperity, there has to be affluence, there has to be fulfillment in life, not just peace.

You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.

How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness.