"My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it."

"I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind."

"Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary."

"If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now."

"In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites."

"It is a radiant truth that where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion."

"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know."

"It is a timeless truth that he who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel — an essential principle for the reflective life."