When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

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.

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

You're in America now, " I said. "Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.

But now I am six. And I'm clever as clever. And now I think I'll stay six now forever and ever.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.

The doubling of oil prices ... is creating a more difficult environment in which to act.

Just in the course of an hour, people didn't need to be persuaded. They just needed to hear, oh my god, there is another plan here which is about the public interest.

International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.