When I retire, I wanna be able to just lay back. Only way to make it happen is to be investing my money, not spending it.

I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.

I was on the playground all night. I ain't never go to parties or nothing. I'd get out of school at 3 and be out there playing until one in the morning with one streetlight. For real.

I'm never gonna try it, because you got to pay a lot for cocaine, and that's not the way I want to spend my money.

To be a great offensive rebounder, you have to think like a defensive rebounder and battle for position while also being in the flow of your offense. And then it's just being determined.

I came up in a small town ghetto and I never did think I'd be a celebrity or famous athlete, I was just loving to play the game of basketball. And I worked hard at everything I did.

The only reason people are saying I'm the number-one player is because I'm with the number-one team.

When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.

I don't talk to reporters, because they're gonna write what they want to write, so let 'em write what they want to write.

I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long solitary task of perfecting himself.

I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.

You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.

Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.

The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.

After all, it is an ancient and valuable right of the English people to turn their nouns into verbs when they are so minded.

My first novel, Leaving Atlanta, took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.