"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."

"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."

"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life."

"He who keeps his cool best wins."

"My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that."

"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."

"I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available."

"If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about."