We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

To be successful in life, you must get in the habit of turning negatives into positives.

I'm working for the Lord, and even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is.

Being angry and resentful of someone is like letting them live rent-free in your head.

It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

All I've ever tried to tell anyone is that I'm not a black man or a white man or anything else. All I've ever been was an American.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

I do situate myself in this problem of being a Jew who doesn't want to be represented by the state of Israel, a state that claims to represent all Jewish people and make me into a potential citizen.

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.

My direction is very anti-contemplative. If you thought I was for commercial products, you'd think there was no irony. The irony isn't meant to be an ironic comment on our society, exactly.

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are - gentleness, memory, and habit.