It gives me a sense of tunnel vision.

There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.

I had all my own teeth and I wanted to keep it that way.

Bobby Cox had the biggest influence in my career and probably the second- or third-biggest influence in my life.

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint.

My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

Reform can be accomplished only when attitudes are changed.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success.