It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.

A million years went by quick.

But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it just prevents me from enjoying it.

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.

In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the 'vertical dimension' of faith and the 'horizontal dimension' of love for one's neighbor and political change.

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.

Email is 20-30 times more effective in generating a purchase than any other tool.

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

I think there's an intricacy in doing something that's meant to look really simple and having it actually be quite complicated.