The example of this poor, dark-skinned man who turned the empire upside-down made a deep impression on the young Sadat. "I began to imitate him," he writes. "I took off all my clothes, covered myself from the waist down with an apron, made myself a spindle, and withdrew to a solitary nook on the roof of our house in Cairo.

The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fulness of life which each man seeks.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.

The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward.

God put us here to go through this kind of mental gymnastics, and He certainly put us here to enjoy our sexual lives. He put us here to ask, to try and find out the best way possible to live with our neighbors. Of course, you can go through a life not asking, and that's the tragedy: so many lives lived in moral blindness.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.