People ask if I had hope of becoming a champion. I had hope. Hope was the only thing I had. Hope pushed me.

I do not like Andre Ward. I want to destroy this guy as a boxer, as a champion. For me he is not a champion, he's a fake champion.

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

Those who can not adjust to change will be swept aside by it. Those who recognize change and react accordingly will benefit.

you can never say you did something truly right because for every action there is an opposite reaction

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

Do not spit gum in the drinking fountains.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

People are not what they seem to be according to their looks.

Anyway, even if she's sugarcoating my good points, I appreciate it. Frankly, I could use a little sugarcoating.

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.