I hit Ali with everything and he said 'is that all you got' and I said 'yeah, that's pretty much it.'

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is.

Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.

It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

Do good and be a good person because that’s just what the Lord expects. There just ain’t nothing special about being and doing good. It’s what the Lord expects…

Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to forst and betrayal.

Anytime you stop and talk to somebody and you learn about them, you start to walk in their shoes a little bit and you see things through a different lens.

It's funny where we look for salvation, and where we actually find it.

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires