The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt.

My problem was that I had bad luck. And I spoke up when I saw something wrong. I did it because I could, without having to worry about the fallout lasting years. And yes, there was always fallout.

I knew what I wanted to do. Sometimes you just had to be brave.

You'll see so much more beauty in the world if you can accept that there is good in every little thing around you.

There is no friendship, without forgiveness.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.

I have known Secretary [Hillary] Clinton for 25 years and respect her very much.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.

to weep for someone who is gone is desolation, but to weep for someone who has never really existed is to lose a part of oneself.

I am more of a knobhead than an egghead but I will be gutted if I get beat.

It is the nature of love to love as much as we feel we are loved and to love whatever the one we love loves.