"It feels great to be home -- do you guys want any coffee or donuts -- I haven't had breakfast yet,"

"In 1973 I became heavyweight champion of the world with 38 victories, no defeats as a professional. You get to a point where you think you cannot lose. I felt like I had the greatest power with my fists, I was the strongest man in the world."

"Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."

"We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that seemed to livein our room at night. Nevertheless, those memories are still there, somewhere inside us, and can sometimes be brought to the surface by events, sights, sounds, or smells. Children, though, can never have grown-up feelings until they've been allowed to do the growing."

"Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives."

"Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it."

"I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex."

"Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind."

"You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable."

"The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile."

"Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others."

"I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears."

"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy."

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."

"The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world."

"The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home."

"If you can get out there and say I'm going to...I'm willing to fail at what I feel is right, that's it."

"I feel a lot of people listen to what I have to say."

"I feel sad for people and the queer part we play in our own distasters."

"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."

"Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad."

"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."

"I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi."

"I always try to keep a positive perspective on what's valuable and the importance of restricting that immediate gratification and, most importantly, that who you are isn't the stuff you have."