When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

Food - there's no greater gift.

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.

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin.

Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.

The unity of the Bible is one of the wonderful proofs of the inspiration of God's Word- that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God.

If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

Fashion is fortunately no law but to its devotees.

Some of the freshest, most compelling, and most soulful music I have heard recently. Bob Reynolds is an amazing musician, with something very exciting and original to say.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.