Kids are always chasing rainbows, but baseball is a world where you can catch them.

All the publicity, the attention, the interviews, the photographs, were too much for me (after throwing his second no-hitter in 1938).

In those days I coercedOracular assuranceIn my favour out of every sign.

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

Clutter is not just physical stuff. It's old ideas, toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.

We can be the best taught people on the face of the earth but the trouble is we don't live as well as we have been taught.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.