It's a kind of philosophy of my own life, to create the energy enough to keep on going.

The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

We all come into and go out of this world in the same way. The Destination is the same. The difference is the Journey. Some Enjoy it, some Don't !

It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.