“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”

“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ”

“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

“Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people.”

“It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it bein your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, fromreligion.”

“I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.”

“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.'”

“The time to hesitate is through.”

“A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.”

“I wish that I had been born a man, then I wouldn't be the boy that I am.”

“The man was staring directly at him now, a curious expression on his face, half smiling, half quizzical. Instantly Eager had a sense of certainty far deeper than anything he had experienced so far....”

“I'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to make my own life.”