In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

It was a pretty fierce rivalry. I'm just speaking for myself, but I think it was general through the clubs. We didn't like them, and they didn't like us.

There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

I went into the Air Corps from 1943 through 1945.

I rather choose to go through what will make me humble than to go for what will increase my pride to a level without limit

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too.

As Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman document in their book Networked, people who are heavily socially active online tend to be also heavily socially active offline; they’re just, well, social people.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

When a girl cries over a guy,she really loves him.when a guy cries over a girl ,he will never love another girl like her.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.