It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

Nirvikalpa Samadhi means you are sitting in meditation and you go beyond the planes of light to nirvana. Then you come back and here you are "back in the saddle again".

I'm a horror movie fanatic.

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

You're not beating when you lose, you're beaten when you quit.

No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it.

That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead.

It would be a mistake to export western management to a friendly country.