I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

To be successful, one must take chances.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

After one kiss you're already looking to get rid of me?

Mackenzie glanced through the glass doors. It was dark outside, except for the dim light from the front entrance. A night breeze swooshed leaves throughout the parking lot.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

My country and me, we are part of this region, we're not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me ; it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That's how we have to look at it.

There are so many forms, I believe people are bright enough to make their own laws, more subtle ones than we've had before.

The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility

The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

The present necessarily betrays the past.

Much of the Christian religion has largely become “holding on” instead of letting go. But God, it seems to me, does the holding on (to us!), and we must learn the letting go (of everything else).