When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Never take advice from a donkey.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

Be on the right way and go in the right direction. Once you are never going back, you will progress day after day, little by little.

I spent most summers in Italy as a child either in Tuscany or at the Amalfi coast.

Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes.

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

My mother's genius was to put her finger on the gifts she saw in each of us, and make every one of us believe that that gift was uniquely ours.

Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.

I can't put this delicately - everyone goes to their high school reunion wanting to see who they 'beat.'

He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.