No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

I never had a speech from my father ‚this is what you must do or shouldn’t do‘ but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn’t perfect.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

And in real life endings aren’t always neat, whether they’re happy endings, or whether they’re sad endings.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.