Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

Silence is the sure sign that youre on your way out in Hollywood.

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.

Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.

You can't eat your friends and have them too

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

When he comes for her, it’s only in her dreams where she has no control, no way to shut the door, and nowhere to run. That’s when she listens.

But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.

Oh, to be seventy again!

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

Gratitude is what starts the receiving process.

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

It's been so long since I was in a real fight.