My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It's friendship. The relationships I have with people, that's enough to keep me happy.

The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.

Work? I never worked a day in my life. I always loved what I was doing, had a passion for it.

People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.

The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

Those who mouth your sacred words with an accent you deem wrong annoy you more than those speaking something you cannot understand.

Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.

In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

The creative process; I enjoy thinking up the stories and situations for my books.

Perfect first date would be coffee at Aroma talking for hours. That's when I would know to ask for a second date.

Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians?

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.