I didn't want to play there when I first found out I was sold to Brooklyn, but I'm tickled to death. I'm glad I could play in Brooklyn.

You can hate a man for many reasons. Color is not one of them.

Maybe tomorrow we'll all wear 42, so nobody can tell us apart.

If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.

Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn't know where to begin.

A society needs famous people

It would be considered a theft on our part if we didn't give to someone in greater need than we are.

Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

Be perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Loving Jesus is what's most important to me. I know it sounds hokey, but it's the truth.

Love is creation raised to a higher degree.

Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.