A person must try to worry about the things that aren't important, so that he won't worry about the things that are.

I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.

would be better served by continuing to hold an ownership position in a pure-play sporting goods retailer rather than a retail conglomerate.

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life.

No objects of value ... are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!

I do really well in science, but I just don't like it. It's boring to me. My favorite class is probably Spanish - it's fun all around.

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.