I don't know what scared me about Marvin Gaye. I just know that he was scary, and that all of his... his aura was frightening to me. I can't explain why.

Now, training fighters is like trying to catch fish. It's not the strength but the technique.

Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.

You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.

My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie.

The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God.

There are positive and negative thoughts. And, hey, it doesn't cost you a cent more to think positively .

You're blowing it, son! You're blowing it!

When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.

Joe Louis, to me, was the finest human being God put on this earth in every way.

Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!

If you try to win, you bind (create) enmity, and if you acknowledge defeat, you will be freed from enmity.

You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.

One of the responsibilities faced by the Environmental Genome Project is to provide the science base upon which society can make better informed risk management decisions.

Pouring out ideas is better for creativity than doling them out by the teaspoon.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

I'm totally growing up.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

Only the defeated know LOVE. because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose.

I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality.

I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.