I'd like to get back and win the World Series and have that be the last image in my mind for the postseason.

I never lost confidence in myself, no matter what the years were like or the results.

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches.

I want to be a guy who can be relied upon.

You win and lose as a team.

The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.

I'm not going to be a guy who does dances after he strikes somebody out. I'm not like that. I just want to secure a win. That's my job.

If they know you're a nibbler, they're going to wait and look for that. Hitters have to be more aggressive if you're more aggressive.

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

Whenever you don't have a good game, whether you're a starter, reliever, whatever, you definitely want to get out there again as soon as you can.

Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces.

Gentleness stepped out of your smile

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

When two people decide to get a divorce it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another but a sign that they have at last begun to.

I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

You seldom come across anything more enjoyable than a happy person.

The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity.

Everyone is entitled to my opinion

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.

The education of attention would be an education par excellence