I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.
Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
The Old Testament gave us the law; the New Testament reveals the love upon which the law rests.
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living. . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.
Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.
The part that sickens me about boxing is guys fight their whole careers and they have nothing to show for it. That's not going to be my testimony. When it's time to get out of the game, I want to be able to walk away. I'm not going to jeopardize my health. I will have no problems walking away.
To date, [Wynton] Marsalis has received a total of nine Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize (the first ever awarded to a jazz musician). . . and twenty-nine honorary degrees, including Columbia, Brown, Princeton and Yale; the National Medal of Arts; and numerous awards from other countries.