I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over.

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

The Marines gave me a really strong sense of discipline and a work ethic that kicks in at my job.

If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. [...] You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

American literature has always been immigrant.