I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters.

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.

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

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.

With all honesty, somewhere between the hello and the dreams I saw you in I fell in love.

It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.

Buying a book is not enough... You must absorb the knowledge it contains. Your personalized knowledge is not what's on your shelf, but how much you put into yourself!

Tolerance over time breeds resentment. Only through understanding, that comes from the acceptance of one another's differences, shall we find true peace.

The fundamental difference between books and movies is that the length of a book does not depend upon the capacity of the human bladder.

Only the fool wants to go into battle to beat someone for the satisfaction of beating someone.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

She dumb.” I sigh. “But she ain’t stupid.

I don't want to bring myself down to place where there are hard and fast rules. In general I try to be compassionate, but that is dependent on the moment ultimately.

We have to humble ourselves and the way you do that is by serving other people.