“I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.”

“Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.”

“Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'”

“I'm a basketball player. That's what I do and what I love but that's just not all who I am. I'm talented in a lot of different areas.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“If your thinking is based on His word and not on what the world is saying then you will be victorious”

“There's no point in saying anything but the truth.”

“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.”