Stories were a living thing. They changed to suit the teller or the times.

She wasn't any bigger than a minute and had hair like wild gold, and she was always merry as a marriage bell.

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.

He cannot ravish. He can only woo.

The heart fools the mind, where eyes went deaf to words, that fell on blinded ears to easy to fall in love.

Scout yourself. Have a buddy who coaches scout you.

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

Nobody's bigger than the game of baseball. You ask pitchers from 10-15-20 years ago. That's normal. Part of the game.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.

If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.