If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

When civility is illusory, war is inevitable.

Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

Convictions in our ideas is dangerous not only because it leaves us vulnerable to false positives, but also because it stops us from generating the requisite variety to reach our creative potential.

To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence.

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.