I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.