August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

If I ever saw myself saying I'm excited going to Cleveland, I'd punch myself in the face, because I'm lying.

I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

I want to be the first player to show what Japanese batters can do in the major league.

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

You should seek approval from yourself.

I had a dream. And I made that dream come true.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

I'm told I either look bigger than I do on television or that I look smaller than I look on television. No one seems to think I look the same size.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.

The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude

We have federal standards for everything in America except the one thing you need most - your health.

True freedom comes about through confidence in liberating any and all thought states.