It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.

When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.

No matter how successful you are, change is always good.

You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.

I made one decision in my life based on money and I swore I would never do it again.

I hate losing more than I want to win.

Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere.

What comes from experience is knowledge, what comes naturally is wisdom.

All providences are doors to trial. Men may be drowned in seas of prosperity as well as in rivers of affliction.

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.

Do you find it difficult to forgive one who has wronged you? Then you will find it difficult to get to heaven.

A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.