I've been very happy with all the teams I've played for. They all treated me very well.

I need my mom for moral support plus to do the house things.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

I just like to be under the radar and concentrate and do my job.

I think the one person that has the most influence on me is the Lord.

My mom is always with me. When I made my major-league debut I told her, 'That's it. You don't work anymore. I'm going to work and take care of you.

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted.

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

We cannot let commercialization of education come in the way of democratization of education.

Sometimes you will do good and not get an acknowledgement for it. Don't let that dishearten you, the world is a better place with your good deeds.

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

If the athlete is fair with the press, he deserves fairness back.

Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you experience life, the situations you attract, are one hundred percent your doing.

Jesus, in His earth walk, was the will of God in action. If you want to know what God thinks about sickness - look at Jesus! He went about healing the sick!

I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.