Baseball is not like football, basketball where a momentum is something made. You don't really have that kind of momentum in baseball.

A lot of enslaved people actually made money, but they had no power.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

Leadership is action, not position

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up.

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

One does not create a human society on mounds of corpses.

I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.

I guess I also see meditation as part of healthy living. It definitely is important for me to find some mental stillness.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.