I usually just speak in English when I'm on the basketball court. For some reason, my mind never even tried to cross any other language when I'm playing basketball.

Food - there's no greater gift.

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

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.

hough we travel the whole over to find the perfect match, we must carry it with us a light or it's playing hard to catch.

Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

Scandal breeds hatred; hatred begets division; division makes faction, and faction brings ruin.

In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being.

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

By its existence, the Peace Movement denies that governments know best; it stands for a different order of priorities: the human race comes first.

I didn't know you were Catholic.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

We have discovered with our new information systems that we can make all the appropriate checks and ensure public safety is not dented in any way in a much shorter time frame.