It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

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!

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.

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.

Leo, ” Hazel gasped, “I can’t—my arms—”“Hazel, ” he said. “Do you trust me?”“No!”“Me neither, ” Leo admitted.

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.

Self-acceptanc e leads to success, not the other way around.

A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

Johnny Vassilaros is the man who has created the finest cup of coffee ever served in the city of New York.

I love swimming, swimming's my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really do enjoy swimming, but swimming for me is simply a way of carrying a message.

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.

The enemy is always in the mind.