The only thing I think about is getting ready for every five days, to go out and get ready for my team.

I feel good with my slider a lot. When I'm far behind the count I use it ... so I feel confident with that.

Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in the strike zone.

You would be surprise with how many distressed hearts that you could touch by living a life of positive purpose.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

As long as we're together, does it matter where we go?

To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

I do think that the Republican Party is in a crisis right now, a crisis of confidence about who we are.

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

1. Don't be boring. 2. Be able to pass the airport test; be interesting enough to carry on a 3 hour conversation with a stranger. 3. When in doubt, do what you can never do again.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.