"There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone."

“If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory.”

Source : Bruce Jenner, Mark Seal (1999). “Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

“Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.”

“Boxing is always serious. Nothing comical or funny about boxing.”

“It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.”

“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.”

“Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.”

“I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive.”

Source : "Talking to Angel Haze". Interview with James C. Mckinley Jr., artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. October 24, 2012.

“I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.”