Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no ambivalence about my mother. All my feelings for my mother were positive, very strong and abiding.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.

God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.

...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.