Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.

Don’t neglect any tiny opportunity that comes your way. They will lead you to greater opportunities you have been expecting to win.

It’s only a book until someone loses their soul!

Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.

Congress is furious at the Secret Service for consorting with hookers, which has traditionally been Congress's role.

Nobody can make you angry without your consent, nobody can disappoint you without your consent, you have to give people consent to do these things.

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

I don't talk about my personal life - or what I do with no females. Just know that I love women. A lot.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

What we assume, what we have never clearly thought out, controls us.

Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.