Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.

I feel good with my slider a lot. When I'm far behind the count I use it ... so I feel confident with that.

The only thing I think about is getting ready for every five days, to go out and get ready for my team.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

The baby is a different person

Anything’s possible, almost.

Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape.

I like it that my career has all the predictability and continuity of a children's nonsense rhyme.

Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel.

I went to India, lived, and studied.