"We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean."

“The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy, according to the testimony of the philosophers who rose in that age. A belief in the doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his followers. We might almost think they were 'Mormons.'”

“It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.”

Source : "Paxman answers the questions" by Matt Wells, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2005.

“The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.”

“I wasn't as critical during games as I was at practice. Players needed confidence during games more than criticism.”

Source : Dean Smith, Gerald D. Bell, John Kilgo (2004). “The Carolina Way: Leadership Lessons from a Life in Coaching”, p.240, Penguin

“I dont think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.”

“Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.”

“You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.”

“Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.”