UCLA acknowledged this shift by bringing in Alex Haley (the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X) and Eldridge Cleaver (Soul on Ice) as speakers.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals.

If ISIS represents Islam, then the KKK represents Christianity

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

In my personal life, especially as I am aging, I find that the biggest mistakes I make and the biggest risks I run all result form mindless hurrying.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

don't make each room a different color in a small apartment or you'll make yourself nervous.

In my opinion, no young player can develop his or her game to its highest potential if he or she rides around the course in a golf cart.

Contrary to what people say, my wife never turned me away from the presidency. She told me to reflect on it and do what I wanted.

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.

Those times, I tried to think of something happy, something I'd liked - but not something I loved, for that made it worse.

Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there.