Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

There is no such thing as a natural boxer. A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time. Even a natural fool has to work at it.

A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His “becoming” happens during his daily routine.

I can show you how to box. I can teach you every technique and trick I know, but I can never make you a fighter. That comes from inside, and it's something no one else can ever give you.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them.

You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.

I hope they're still making women like my momma. She always told me to do the right thing. She always told me to have pride in myself; she said a good name is better than money.

The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

It hurt to even bump into him.

If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody.

No matter how tall and wide darkness is, it cannot block the stars.

Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it.

If zipper catches skin, I'll know I had it out when I should a kept it in.

The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."

If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

Art is a personal act of courage.

Any time some politician tells you it's not about the money, it's about the money.