“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.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the ...”

“There is a lot to celebrate about that little Babe who was laid in a manger. Christians celebrate Christmas because they are thankful for the promise of salvation, which was delivered in human fles...”

“I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful.”