If you feel pain, you have to make up your mind whether you can play with it or not.

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

It's somewhat of a normal procedure sometimes when you have a knee drained... so long as it's not something you have to do every game.

The Hall of Fame has strong people.

We are not bound by time. But there are things we cannot speak of because the repercussions of particular thoughts can break lives.

Everybody needs a career manager."- Lady Macbeth

It is abundantly clear that success tends to negate humility.

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

[The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund that also happens to have an army.