My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

We play because we are wired for joy; it is imperative as human beings.

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.

But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys.

Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.

Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year.

We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we call them our own and take personal, even civic pride in their accomplishments.

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

Faith isn't figuring out what we're able to do, it's deciding what we're going to do - even when we think we can't.

Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

The first thing that has to happen is the protection of voting rights and registration.

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have overcome the world'

In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light

Money isn't an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.