There were times last year when people looked at the scoreboard and thought my batting average was the temperature.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improvable superlative.

The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems.

Freedom of inner thought bears sanctuary mind.Imagination's sight will never bare you blind~

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.

There's going to be ups and downs and that you have to be okay with the downs too and embrace them just as much because they will teach you something.

Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

We'd love it if we could all just come home and not worry about the rest of the world. But the problem is, they attacked us on 9/11. We were here; they attacked us.