You walk in our locker room and you see Pau Gasol, you see Andrew Bynum, you see Kobe, you see Ron Artest ... we have so many players that can play.

My grandma always said bad things don't last forever.

I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.

You've got to play with pride and guts.

Either you can do it or you can't. I think I can overcome anything I put my mind to.

If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

I've always felt that I'm a natural leader.

My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.

I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.

In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.

GOD can turn every curse into a blessings.

Dying peacefully means to avoid any immediate cause for anger, fear, or strong desire.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.

In many cases, you're forced to make deals that are not the deal you'd make.

The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.

I can be a very sarcastic person, and sometimes people take every word I say literally.

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.