I get on base by making good contact with the ball. But whenever I hit a home run, I'm as surprised as everybody else.

Listen, ump. How can you sleep with the lights on?

Unhappy poor people at least have the fantasy that money will make them happy

Love of sports will always break your heart, but in doing so, it reminds us we have one.

Life is like a cup of coffee: The more avidly you drink of it, the sooner you reach the dregs.

A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.

He who has never hoped can never despair

We have produced some good walkers and saunterers, and some noted climbers; but as a staple recreation, as a daily practice, the mass of the people dislike and despise walking.

As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.