MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I never lose. Either I win or learn.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

The author explains that some find recourse from injustice in literature and art but that these tend to deepen sensitivity to injustice rather than dull it.

Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

I couldn't decide what kind of person she was, whether she was one of those insects that look exactly like wasps but aren't . . . I just wanted to know if she would sting.

The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

Man, I'm a conspiracy theorist by nature. You can't experience the federal penal system and not be somewhat skeptical.

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.