But I feel like I can go out there and do what I need to do.

A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I couldn't hit, so I had to work on defense.

You want to have expectations. I think it makes you work a little bit harder now, and it makes you want to prove to everyone that it wasn't just a one-year thing.

Parenting should be a passion, not a part-time pursuit.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.

There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.

America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians.

Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

Science fiction is not necessarily either fiction or anything to do with science.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.