It's a good feeling to see the kids try to make it, try to get to the big leagues. Everyone here has an opportunity to achieve his dream. I was lucky I was able to achieve my dream.

I come from Cuba. Taxes for me are no big thing.

I still dream about everything I achieved. I dream about my career, dream about playing baseball, meeting so many people, traveling so much.

I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head.

May you let the authentic colors of your heart illuminate and may you feel the light within others.

I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?

There was a band playing in my head, And I felt like getting high

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.