If you can stay back, you can wait an extra split-second longer, and then you become more relaxed, and that's when you gain confidence.

I'm always alright, as long as I've got [a bat].

I love Minnesota, and I'd love to play my whole career here.

You've got to hit 30 before you hit 40.

I don't really set personal goals for home runs or anything like that. However many I hit, I hit. If I'm making consistent contact and hitting the ball hard, then I will hit home runs.

I believe I'm a middle-of-the-order hitter capable of driving in runs. If I stay healthy, I'll get back to that level.

A first-place team? You're always excited to become a part of that.

Leaders build the future with clays of the past. Every good moment gives them ideas

I don't love the word luxury because it feels Bougy to me.

And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation.

Where there is no math, there is no freedom.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.

We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an encounter with Him who created us and loves us more than mother and father.

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I know I'm smart and have opinions worth being heard.