Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find.

I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team.

If a manager of mine ever said someone was indispensable, I'd fire him.

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.

God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.

I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world.

I read like a wolf eats. I read myself to sleep every night.

Without this great land of ours, we would all drown.

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.

I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.

Those two principles: We're supposed to love one another and we're supposed to work together to make the experience better. That's all the religion you need, really, to make a success of this planet.

I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.

A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.