The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.

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.

Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.

People survived by being cautious, but they got ahead by being bold.

Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.

Life should play background music just as in the movies.

Happiness is in the taste and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like not from possessing what others like.

I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.

The European Borders Agency in Warsaw has been created to help border forces in Europe cooperate more.

A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.