Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.

Greatness is not dependent on your background, it is dependent on how much value you were able to add to yourself per time.

Generals, on the average, are far less bellicose than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

How someone treats a waiter or doorman can tell you so much about a person.

If God does not exist, then everything is permissible.

The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid.

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

I've never done a film that I'm proud of.

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.