Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.

When you've learned to believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be. That's because you have the mental edge.

I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right Stan Musialby his glove and I laugh.

The way they dress here (California), your head is always in the stands. All those bikinis, your eyes get tired.

Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately.

I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.

Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.

Republicans and Democrats agree that this should be done, $2.5 trillion. I happen to think it's double that. It's probably $5 trillion that we can't bring into our country.

I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

I think that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. If you're not feeling good about your own sexuality and your own body, you're not going to feel good about anything else.

I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.

Even if you're fat, one thing always fits: shoes.

Because we humans find stories such fascinating things, it’s all too easy to get interested in the story for its own sake, and lose sight of the purpose for which we set out to use the story.