"The human spirit is nurtured by praise, as much as a seedling is nurtured by the soil, the water and the sun."

“If you're a good fighter on the street, you don't have to tell anybody that you're good at fighting. Let someone else talk about how great you are at this or that or whatever is the case. And if no one finds out then no one finds out, that's fine too. But I think leading by example is always the strongest.”

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“Food, sex, and liquor create their own appetite.”

“The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government...”

“Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that it becomes an instinct. You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times ­ it is there.”

“Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.”

“Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.”

“Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.”

“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. Negativism to the pain and ferocity of life is negativism to life. We are not there until we can say 'yea' to it all.”