I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

I never did think I had brain damage.

You can't do nothing but try if you still got it in your heart.

I don't want the kids to go through want I went through.

God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.

It ain't what you do it's how you do it.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

The old are a regular subject for sympathy.

If people will be interested in me, they will be interested in chess also.

My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.

I live near San Francisco in the most beautiful spot on earth and enjoy myself in many ways. Yes, I love to work, which for now is to think and read and write, so it's all a dream come true.

Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.

There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love with which they regarded Nature.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.