There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether.

Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.

I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I’ve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.

You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You are only as good as the team you have behind you.

You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to learn that and that's why it's a great thing to join this fraternity.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.

Your time as the entrepreneur is worth hundreds of dollars an hour. If you are doing tasks you could hire out, those are stopping you from earning that kind of money.

I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.

Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.

Ideology is strong exactly because it is no longer experienced as ideology… we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.

Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.

Destiny is always dark.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

There is more here than meets the eye.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.