I was lucky to go to work every day for 50 years, to a job that I loved.

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.

Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

My label in Toronto was Stand Pat and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

Giving is not favor

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

I'm allergic to chemicals in food so I eat only organic foods.

We took blood samples and we can predict if someone is doing meditation or not.

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.

The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions.

I want to live as long as possible, just to see how stupid it gets.

Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.

Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take.