There are a lot of pitchers in baseball who should celebrate his life and what he did for the game of baseball.

My philosophy has always been simple: Believe in yourself.

When they operated, I told them to put in a Koufax fastball. They did-but it was Mrs. Koufax's.

If you work hard everyday and bust your tail on every play, eventually people will notice and word will get around.

Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.

Being amongst rough lives and confusion does not make you less, it only makes your beauty shine out more clearly.

I know it’s hard for you to allow yourself to feel this. You've gone so long training yourself to block the feelings and emotions out any time someone touches you.

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

It is easiest to lose your way in the forest after it is cut.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Another crazy day where you drink the night away and forget about everything.

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens.

I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.