I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans when other doors were closed.

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

Before a group can enter the open society it must first close ranks.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves the only final sin is stupidity.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.