But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.

He knows which fighters to steal, how to exploit anyone's vice, vanity or insecurity and make a profit for himself.

Comprehensive, judicious, evenhanded, original. An Unfinished Life has the sober judgment and nuanced accuracy that make it ring true in all the controversial and tricky parts.

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

The goal of radicalism is to improve the human condition, not to prove one's own moral superiority.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

Life will treat you according to how you observe its rules and principles.

I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

When I wasn't sure what the word "charisma" meant, I met Steve Jobs, and then I knew.

The most powerful way to control your focus is through the use of QUESTIONS

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

We arrange our lives-even the best and boldest men and women that exist, just as much as the most limited-with reference to what society conventionally rules and makes right.