Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.

He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority.

From so high above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate.But I know it's more than that. And less. It is structured and chaotic. Beautiful and strange.

God is very great.God is splendour.God is majestic.

It's hard to say what's in my head. It's been a long time since anyone cared to ask.

Walls don't fall without effort.

To fear love is to fear life and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

As men of the priesthood, we have an essential role to play in society, at home, and in the Church. But we must be men that women can trust, that children can trust, and that God can trust.

I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen in a hurry.

If the truth is with you, let anything else be against you! You will win! If the truth is not with you but everything else is on your side, it doesn't matter, you will lose!

Don't just be in the business and have fun 'cause you're a kid. You've gotta learn; this is your livelihood.

My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.