The more pitches you see, the more dangerous you become.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

In a blind town, the one-eyed man is king.

Experience is something you get when you don't really want it.

You got to be bad before you're good.

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

If a bully mocks you, just think about your positive values compared to the bully and ignore his or her harsh comments.

Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

To those who are willing to believe, no explanation of these events is necessary...and to those who are not willing to believe, no explanation is possible.

In America you make your plans and then they happen.

Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.