"First with the head, then with the heart."

"Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it."

". . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child."

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

"I have found in life that everything, no matter how bad, comes to an end."

"But I was still alive, and in my book, where there's life, there's hope."

"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."

"Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do."

"First with the head, then with the heart, you'll be ahead from the start."

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

"Never take advice from a donkey."

"You've got to be quick on your feet in this world if you want to survive. Though once you know the rules, it is not too hard to play the game."

"Sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency"

"Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth."

"Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it."

"In teaching me independence of thought, they had given me the greatest gift an adult can give to a child besides love, and they had given me that also."

"You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural."

"Inside all people there is love, also the need to take care of the other man who is his brother. Inside everyone is a savage, but there is also happening tenderness and compassion."

"Good conversational debate is an end in itself, and talking for the love of conversation is what makes us human."

"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!"

"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."

"It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something."

"I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream."

"How 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."

"Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man."

"Generosity overpowers greed."

"The imagination is always the best torturer."

"I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about it."

"Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state."

"Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad."

"Sweet potatoes in their jackets have a large comfort value built into them"

"It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!"

"When a man knows somebody cares he keeps some small place, a corner maybe of his soul clean and lit."

"First with the head and then with the heart."

"Boldness, at first a stranger to be treated with caution, soon becomes a friend, then a partner, and finally taken for granted, as is the daily relationship between married people."

"Every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe."

"In this world there are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation."

"... in each of us there is a flame that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed."

"Ou can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural."

"Mix the head with the heart, and you're ahead from the start."

"I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert."

"And if you should be there and you see this beautiful cactus blossom painted silver by the moon and laughing up at the stars, this, Peekay, is heaven."

"My only desire is to teach the word o' man and leave the word o' Gawd to the pulpit men"

"Then I felt like having a piss and I did that"

"The joy of a small town lies in its unchanging nature."

"I Shall Never Surrender."

"It's who you is when folks knocks at the door of your heart what counts. Hide the past and it gives them what's jealous of you the power to bring you undone."

"I spoke the language that had pronounced the sentences that had killed their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the world's first concentration camps"