I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making consistent contact and hitting the ball hard, then I will hit home runs.

If you can stay back, you can wait an extra split-second longer, and then you become more relaxed, and that's when you gain confidence.

I'm always alright, as long as I've got [a bat].

I love Minnesota, and I'd love to play my whole career here.

You've got to hit 30 before you hit 40.

I believe I'm a middle-of-the-order hitter capable of driving in runs. If I stay healthy, I'll get back to that level.

A first-place team? You're always excited to become a part of that.

When you are in love, reality becomes illusion and illusion become reality.

Walking on the path I met my Master, known by a million names in different cultures and places yet people have forgotten the way to HIM.

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of an old church in the country.

My rule is never save bits. They get the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big mess.

Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.

Atheism, the absence of belief in gods, is a comparatively late phenomenon in history.

People don't get it; they think I'm rich. I'm not! I have no money.

I use rosewater a lot. I don't remember who taught me that, but that's my number one thing that I always use on my face and all over my body.

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points.

Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.