I suspect that much of life is like that. We seldom see what is closest to our eyes.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

I used to be another little fellow with some hoop dreams / Now I got the game laced up, shoe strings.

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.

It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

It's always necessary to seek for perfection. Obviously, for us, this word no longer has the same meaning. To me, it means: from one canvas to the next, always go further, further.

The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.

Many of my poems are not sexual.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.