Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.

To understand him you had to understand this: he wasn't human.

It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can.

I'd give a hundred dollars for a cold beer.

When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.

Sincerity causes the smallest of good deeds to become the largest.

For something warm, try adding cinnamon sticks and nutmeg to apple cider simmering on the stove. You'll get the added benefit of making your home smell amazing.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us.

If you know but do not do, you are a very unhappy person indeed.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.

It can't always be a honeymoon