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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The joy of reading is grace of renewal of mind.

Whites saying 'make America white again' is like millionaires saying 'make the wealthy rich again.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.

Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god.

A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients.

As a model you need to be able to do the craziest things.

I'm magnificent! I'm five feet eleven inches and I weigh one hundred thirty-five pounds, and I look like a racehorse.

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

I have never been to India and I am not a specialist on Indian culture, and I would not wish to be heard to be taking swipes at a culture which I've never experienced and where I've never lived.