"I don't mind not having recognition. If it happens, fine, but it doesn't bother me that it's not there."

“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”

“One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.”

Source : Joe Hyams (2010). “Zen in the Martial Arts”, p.107, Bantam

“The truth is that I didn't start as a winner. When I was a kid, I was just another reject. I started at the bottom. I think all winners do.”

Source : Georges St-Pierre (2013). “The Way of the Fight”, p.15, Harper Collins

“Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.”

“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

“I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.”

“I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.”

Source : "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

“You know what a storyteller is, don't you? It's a person that has a good memory who hopes other people don't.”

Source : Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.28, Macmillan