To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him.

From that day on, I ran from spot to spot.

I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.

Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?

If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories.

With nature on your side, you don’t need numbers, you don’t need financing and you certainly don’t need to make friends with people you should be fightingagainst.

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.

The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

Women don't get the credit they deserve.

Man will ever stand in need of man.