I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.

I love what I do on the field and that takes a lot of my time. But I also make time to help other people because a lot are not as fortunate as I am.

If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.

I'm blessed with health and energy and passion for the game of baseball, and also to help children.

You've got to be smart to stay in this game. The quicker you learn, the quicker you succeed. You can't make the same mistakes over and over again.

I'm a simple guy. There's nothing fancy about my life.

Work is not a drag for me. I like to get here early, hang out, catch up with the boys. I'll go in the cage and hit, do my exercises. I try to keep it fun and find ways to enjoy it.

You probably don't call home and say, 'Hi, mom. I am facing Pete Schourek tonight.' Names and stats don't do it. You have to do it out on the field.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Your current body is the only body that can take you to your new body—so be kind to it.

David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.

The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.

If you want to be transparent with your people, do not do anything cosmetic, whether to deceive your people or to get some applaud from the West.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.

I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.