Don't be just another guy going down the street and going nowhere.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.

Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.

My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

You can say, "I don't believe in anything," but you do because you believe in nothing. That is your belief system.

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight.

Anyone in a position to overcome barriers to free thought and communication should do so.

Suicide is the most private and mysterious of acts, inexplicable because the chief actor is never there to explain it.

Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.