I can do a little bit of everything, I'd like to think.

I'm still pinching myself. I am very grateful of the way things have gone.

I'm not out to prove anything to anybody.

I don't denounce being Canadian at any point, but I'm definitely proud to be an American.

Larry Walker paved the way for guys like me.

I tried hockey, but it never stuck.

I like to see a lot of pitches just to get a feel for being in the batter's box and seeing pitches.

Everyone says the best fans in baseball are here [in Boston] and I can't wait to be a part of that.

Before, baseball was something to do to get ready for the hockey season. Now, people look to play baseball, period. It's something you stick with.

It really tests you as a person as far as whether you can handle failure.

I don't really like the limelight.

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

Why is English so widespread today, and not Danish?

I do not think about being beautiful. What I devote most of my time to is being healthy

That's a phenomenon of the Left: You don't fight evil. You fight carbon emissions

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

Ibn Taymiyyah lived poorly. He was imprisoned and threatened. But I have never seen anyone as happy as him.

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever non-Platonic.

God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.

God has, in fact, thought of us from eternity and has loved us as unique individuals. He has called every one of us by name, as the Good Shepherd 'calls His sheep by name.'

The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God.