My rookie year, I was very immature.

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.

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.

I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.

And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man’s finer emotions, and her lack of interest in his aspirations.

We may always enslave ourselves to mankind if we do not clearly differentiate between showing respect to mankind from pleasing mankind

Dave learned that Death is the opposite of peace: it’s struggle, it’s ugly, it’s horrific, it’s dirty. And ultimately, Death is emptiness.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

I think everything contributes to your creativity.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.

Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.

Don't be afraid to ask the 'dumb' question, everyone else will be relieved you had the guts to ask!

The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.