I think you should have a mindset of getting to the playoffs, because once you get in the playoffs, it is kind of a crapshoot.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Christianity is called a spiritual walk. It's not a run and it's not a jog. It's a walk you do from day to day and that makes you stable.

My main philosophy is that money is a loan from God. I'm in charge of it. I'm responsible for investin it, giving some of it away, providing for my family, and protecting it.

The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in.

A life of joy awaits the man who sits alone quietly in a room and determines what he himself believes rather than simply adopting the values of another.

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

I don't have a lot of downtime.

What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.

Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work, but I know that Barack Obama is trying his best, and that at some point down the road, he's going to get it right.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.