Some people are going to be happy (with my decision). Some people aren't. But I must live my life.

The loss just made me hungry; it made me want to go out and win another title.

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

In boxing, everybody has their favorites.

I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.

Don't Just go to Office and do your Job. Look for Light that can Enlighten your Future.

The eleventh gift is Love. It will grow each time you give it away.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid.

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted.

I want to age nicely. Rather than being afraid of aging, I want to take each year coolly and age gracefully.

They're not just interested in one sort of music any more.

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me.

The absent are always in the wrong

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.