When an elevator brings u upstairs, you better send it back down in order to bring others up!

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.

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.

You got off on the wrong foot. I merely watched you shove it into your mouth.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

Never give your opinion on someone's writing unless they ask sincerely, and never ask for someone's opinion unless you're sincere.

Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.

One measure of your success will be the degree to which you build up others who work with you. While building up others, you will build up yourself.

There's nothing better than a 200 lb snatch, if you know what I mean.

I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young.

Especially in the case of India and Pakistan, it's very clear that significant parts of the elites in both countries view having nuclear weapons as a ticket to prestige.

I always had a fairly decent income, coming in just from the art.

I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.