Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.

I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.

Nothing means more to me than helping my team win.

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.

I am not a passenger in anything I do. I am and always will be a leader.

You have to work hard at things.

With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

...in my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain...

Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies.

Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.

We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the end of the story – i.e. in the light of Christ

I worry about Rick Perry. One, he's too conservative, Two, his debating skills. And three ... Oh crap, what was three?

Our life is our own creation.

It is true that we are interested in scale but there are very sound reasons for this.

Photos always seem to exist as sort of stuffy, unnecessary antiques that we put in a drawer — unless we take them out, put them in current dialogue, and give them relevance.

Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

I think you really have to tap into your sense of humor in order to survive.