"There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great."

"People still look at me as the champion and that's very important to me."

"Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period it can be a very shady business."

"In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed."

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."

"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."

"The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?"

"A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me."