I hit an inside-the-park home run! I beat it out! Can you believe that?

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

We cannot experience free joy and happiness without experiencing the depths of pain.

Why break the heart that never beat from love?

The earth is a planet that contains living things

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Death, it seems, has a mind of its own.

It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.

You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon.

Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.