I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

Being an umpire wasn't such a tough job. You really have to understand only two things and that's maintaing discipline and knowing the rule book.

When it was time for a player to go, he went.

It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

GOD is foolishness and GOD is wisdom all at the same time.

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

Believe in your dreams or don't dream at all.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous, ' on the other.

Be yourself. Authenticity trumps cool every time.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

At drama school, I was always playing the 11-year-old boys.

What good does the theory [of economics] do if it is not working for people?

The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.

Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.