To voice one's curmudgeonly thoughts - 'I hate tattoos,' 'If that kid says 'like' even one more time, I'm going to fire him,' and such things, instantly labels one as a geezer.

It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes a lot of homework.

Certainly, I find that 'Mere Christianity' speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me.

It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of the great religious traditions - as an undergraduate in selective colleges or in the honors programs of large universities.

The religiosity of Americans I don't think has ever been determined by how much money they make.

I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to marriage, attraction to religion, and which tended to increase attraction to crime.

More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn't make you good, doesn't make you valuable, doesn't make you wise.

As for tattoos, it does no good to remind curmudgeons that tattoos have been around for millennia. Yes, we will agree, tattoos have been common - first among savage tribes and then, more recently, among the lowest classes of Western societies.

Here's the secret you should remember whenever you hear someone lamenting how tough it is to get ahead in the postindustrial global economy: Few people work nearly as hard as they could.

No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions.

Trumpism' is the expression by the white working class of a lot of legitimate grievances that it has with the ruling class.

I have always believed in enforcing the border, and doing that before you do amnesty.

There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working class guys.

When you talk to people in working class communities about men, the women aren't telling you that their guys are looking desperately for work but can't find it. An amazing number of them aren't interested in working.

I hate reading reviews.

Hey, I'm a libertarian. I think out of control spending messes up everything.

The government is a terrible employer, and that goes for national service jobs as well.

You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager.

If you don't start your career until thirty, that still gives you thirty-five years to make it professionally. If you can't make it in thirty-five years, you weren't going to make it in forty or forty-five.

We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that obligation is to waste our lives.

IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is true about just about any human attribute you can think of that has no relationship to IQ whatsoever.

The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.

For most of our nation's history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere else in the world - for whites, anyway.

Though politicians and media eminences are too frightened to say so, nonmarital births are problematic. On just about any measure of development you can think of, children who are born to unmarried women fare worse than the children of divorce and far worse than children raised in intact families.

There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents.

The relationship between heredity and IQ in human beings is well established. But that does not mean that if you have a group difference, an ethnic difference, that difference must also be genetic.

You can't throw a hook on the side of the road and expect to catch a fish in the grass.

Potential is like a summer crop. If it don't rain, it don't grow.

Don't say, 'I don't want to do this, because, whatever.' Don't give up on something. You got to work hard.

In the old days Michael Jordan and Larry Bird worked for everything they got. They worked hard on their game.

There's been a thing with Detroit and the Bulls ever since I've been in the league.

If you have a horse that isn't winning any races, sooner or later you have to get a new jockey.

People say, 'You're old.' Old ain't nothing. You've got new cars that break down and old cars that pass them.

A gentleman pays his debt within a week or two.

I'm cool with whatever. I'll just keep eating my bread, sipping my soup and serving my time. But the chicken is going to lay some more eggs one day.

Every superstar in this league, if you don't go through adversity, if you try to duck and dodge it, it's gonna damper your team.

Every headline in the paper, I don't write them. My story's inside the paper, not the headline.

I'm always willing to work stuff out, because I'm that type of guy.

I'm a veteran. I understand the game. I can control a game. I understand systems. I can play several positions.

Even though I retired, I work out four to five days a week, run two to three miles, I play ball.

I'm a trendsetter. I'm a leader, not a follower.

I love New York, gave my whole heart.

My thing was, if somebody talks about you this and that, you got to go prove them wrong.

You can't shut somebody up by losing.

Some things don't just walk away. A dog got a broken leg, he ain't just going to walk away. He going to try to get himself together.

I always try to treat people with respect and I just don't know. I got three assault cases for no reason.

Do me a favor and don't make me out to be no hero.

I'm in New York every two weeks. I don't have to ring a bell when I come to the city. I just do what I'm supposed to do when I'm in the city. I don't shy away.

It's been so overwhelming, the people in New York. That's why they call New York, New York - because they care about things and know real situations. My love for the fans, it's mouth-dropping.

One guy can't make a team better.