A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I couldn't hit, so I had to work on defense.

You want to have expectations. I think it makes you work a little bit harder now, and it makes you want to prove to everyone that it wasn't just a one-year thing.

But I feel like I can go out there and do what I need to do.

He realized this early on, and realized too that what people think are their lives are merely its conditions. The truth is closer than thought and lies buried in what we already know.

…what your life means depends on how you tell the story.

I don't know, Benes. I'm not sure I've ever really understood women for that kind of commitment.' He flipped his beer mat up int the air with his index finger and caught it in his hand.

You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.

You must address the historical and political differences in race and ethnicity in this country before you hold tenaciously to insubstantial, and unsubtantiated, beliefs.

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?

God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.