With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.

Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.

You're at your best, when you're focused and you're serious and passionate about what you do, but at the same time you can relax and have fun and be confident.

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

I don't feel like basketball is the only way to make a living.

I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.

Nothing means more to me than helping my team win.

I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.

Life for me outweighs the game of basketball.

I am not a passenger in anything I do. I am and always will be a leader.

You have to work hard at things.

The rewards of faith are beyond doubt.

Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.

I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.

they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

The ones that make it complicated never get congratulated

Thoughtfulness begins with seeing. My job as a photographer is to make that seeing easier. What we appreciate, what fascinates us, we will strive to preserve.

But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home?