Small can beat big, but you must have a plan.

Love is energy: it can neither be created nor destroyed. It just is and always will be, giving meaning to life and direction to goodness... Love will never die.

Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.

Never take advice from a donkey.

Always listen to yourself... It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention.

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.

It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the heart. But in the end the heart is the boss.

We don't really change. We finally begin to live a life that is true to our values.

I was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.

During the fight my senses dim, and basically, I don't feel any pain.

I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.

Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.

Then when I cut my hair short, my career tanked for about four years!

"Time" does not mean "occasion."

Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs.