Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!

I love my family.

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

God guided me to America and gave me a good job. But he also gave me a heart so I would look back.

There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.

Didn't the other guys tell you? Nobody dunks on Manute B-O-L!

I'm not a violent person.

I've gone to war zones before and never got shot.

If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.

Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I like to do at least 15 minutes of cardio every day if I can fit it in.

At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

When I first started buying shoes with my own money, I would always get them from eBay. I used to hack my mum's account, and suddenly these white cowboy leather boots would arrive.

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.

A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

When you look at facing retirement in your mid-30s, and all of a sudden the outlet for that passion and work ethic goes away, you can't just sit back in a rocking chair and be retired at 35. I'm not a good enough golfer to play golf every day.

My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

Know you will win and you will win!

If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are pro one side or the other in a conflict.

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

You lose so many material possessions being on the road. You can't get too attached to stuff and you have to remember that people must never become possessions. People are spheres intersecting. You have to make sure that one sphere doesn't ever take over the other. Individuality is absolutely the most important thing

I was constantly being told I shouldn't talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to think I was giving too much away to my competitors. Showing signs of weakness. But I've always thought that was rubbish.

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

All adventure is now reactionary.

I can see it in even great actors' performances, when they're phoning it in.

A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.