Don't make promises you can't keep.

I think nobody can explain why some people win and why some people lose. It really doesn't always have to do much with talent. It has to do with how you deal with pressure.

LeBron James is the best player, hands down. He is easily moving into the territory of one of the best players of all time and may end up being the best player of all time.

Autumn...the year's last, loveliest s

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.

By standing respectfully and faithfully at the borders of another’s solitude, we may mediate the love of God to a person who needs something deeper than any human being can give.

When I was in the House for 16 years, I caucused with the Democrats.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.

How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?

His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

I'm the biggest Chekov fan - there's something that he does that not many other writers do.

I do think that the banking system is now in the most perilous state we've seen in over 70 years.