"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once."

"We should take care not to make the intellect our god it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."

"In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that a single spark of imagination can ignite the world."

"The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state."

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."