No matter where I went, where I’ve gone, what I’ve seen and what I’ve done…you have never not been wit’ me. You’ve always been my home.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

It is only when we go outside that comfort zone, and subject ourselves to the discomfort of considering thoughts we don’t agree with, that we can make an informed judgment on any matter.

We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.

It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?

Reality has a way of asserting itself.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

To see what they see, sit where they sit.

Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.

Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?

If you’re an actress, you’re always on one diet or another — it’s a way of life.

The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain, just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.