Losing's a great motivator.

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Our deeds will not cause God to love us more

I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye.

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.

And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fellow creatures, even to the Cui bonos.

Mines are equal opportunity weapons.