I had such a great year I didn't want to forget it.

One night in Pittsburgh, thirty-thousand fans gave me a standing ovation when I caught a hot dog wrapper on the fly.

I know I'm the world's worst fielder, but who gets paid for fielding? There isn't a great fielder in baseball getting the kind of dough I get paid for hitting.

Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become.

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

Mockery ends where understanding begins.

Everyone has a dream, so why not dream big... it just might happen!

Good things happen when you go for it!

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Why does the brain retain the memory of the hurt from yesterday?

I did not come here for the purpose of surrendering my command.

There is room for us all to be how we actually are.