The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance stupidity and perjury.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.

I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.

Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10.

There are hundreds of good reasons for having a cat, but all you need is one.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find.

My only day off is the day I pitch.

My only day off is the day I pitch (in regards to how hard he works out during off-days).

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

We're truly alive when facing the prospect of our own mortality, if you convince yourself that you'll live forever, you'll never really have lived at all.

Imagination is glorious riches of mystery.

The stark evening sun at the far edge of the town had just unzipped the sky and finally gone down.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

I'm a dyslexic person, so I avoid books.

If I have led my life totally deliberately, then when I come to the end of the diving board, I can just fall off the diving board and it will be perfect. I won't even remember what happened.

Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.

Obama's got a health care logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook ... Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate.

The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.