If we are not regularly deeply embarrassed by who we are, the journey to self-knowledge hasn't begun.

I travel in so many different ways I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

It's not how high you jump, how fast you run. All you guys here can run faster, jump higher. But I'll tell you, I can get my friend Larry Bird and the two of us will play any two of you and when it's all said and done, we will get the last laugh.

Nothing is easier than to stimulate the euphoria of community in a few days of life together and nothing is more fatal to the healthy, sober, everyday life in community of Christians.

But God has put this Word into the mouth of men in order that it may be communicated to other men. When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek him and find his living Word in the witness of a brother, in the mouth of a man. Therefore, a Christian needs another Christian who speaks God's Word to him. He needs him again and again when he becomes uncertain and discouraged.

Fascism is an Italian term that means "groupism" or "collectivism." The fasci in Italy were groups of political activists who got their name from the fasces of ancient Rome—the bundles of rods carried by the lictors to symbolize the unified strength of the Romans. The core meaning of the term fascism is that people are stronger in groups than they are as individuals.

There's some that constantly put monkeys on your back. It's their monkey, but somehow you end up carrying it. Often there are people who really care, but they constantly have problems and they want to share it with you and you're constantly trying to fix things for them. In truth, you're worried more about their problems than you do your own. Be weary of the monkeys.

If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.