"I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family."

"The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change."

"Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math."

"I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century."

"The simplest truths often reveal that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that the strength of a community lies in its compassion."