Better is the most important step to becoming your best. If you want to be your best, you need to start by getting better. Start doing better. Good, better, best. That's how it works.

Big oaks grow from small acorns, and activity is a precursor to accomplishment. You don't think yourself into success.

There was nothing as romantic as the feel of a book in your hands.

When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.

The surest way to get what you need is to communicate.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.

You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun!

Your Majesty, I am like you. I do no work. I do nothing, but I am indispensable.

Like once we picked Jim Norton as the head of security, the writing flows pretty easily.

I've matured a lot as a pitcher. I understand what my strengths are. I've learned that I've got a great sinker, I get a lot of ground balls, and it's easy to get a ground-ball double play.