I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.
There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy from the Bronx.
I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?
When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.
If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.
I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000.
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
There is no great discoveries and advances, as long as there is an unhappy child on earth. / Ne možemo govoriti o napretku čovječanstva, dok na svijetu ima nesretne djece.
The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots
Deux choses sont infinies : l’Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l’Univers, je n’en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue.
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
