An island of surety in a changing world.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

Prayer fuels power for life.

Those who find courage to pursue their dreams, manifest gladness of the soul.

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

Most people feel aggressed by anything that is different from them.

For me, a breakup changed my entire life. I was a mess. I really got rocked, and I ended up turning it into a positive thing.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

My only intention is to just have a little bit more success so that my career is easier and I don't have to work so hard just to get a job.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.