In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

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.

It is in the time of peace that the instruments of war are built.

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

We must not build up ourselves at the expense of others.

I didn't really understand community until I moved to New Orleans.

Are we ever going to have a federal tax system that regular people can understand?

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

rain began to beat at the narrow lattice windows in the stop-and-start manner of an untalented child practicing scales at the piano.

If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They shouldbe a comfort and a protection.

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.