I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Good is not good when better is expected.

The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!

Is that all souls are for? For when we die?" "No. They're for living, too.

If you want to be lied to, all you have to do is believe everything that the government tells you.

It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

A theory is a battlefield in your head.

Everything is going to change.

Keep walking the walk, one step at a time.

It is thus that we walk through the world like the blind, not knowing whither we are going, regarding as bad what is good, regarding as good what is bad, and ever in entire ignorance.

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.