These are my new shoes. Theyre good shoes. They wont make you rich like me, they wont make you rebound like me, they definitely wont make you handsome like me. Theyll only make you have shoes like me. Thats it. – Charles Barkley
If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, shes ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, hes got no skills. – Charles Barkley
Kids are great. Thats one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. Its a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names. – Charles Barkley
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny. – Charles Barkley
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart. – Elizabeth Bowen