My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.

A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.

Some plays just come out of me, just on instincts. I'll make a play and wonder, How did I do that?

Change isn’t closing the door on the old, it is opening the door on the new.

If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere.

That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?