To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.

I would give my life to fly in space. It's hard for me to talk about it but I would. I would then, and I will now.

When you develop yourself, you grow humanity.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are.

A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.

We'll let the sunshine in and shine on us, because today we're happy and tomorrow we'll be even happier.

As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows extinction or the cessation of independent development.

From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world.

There's nothing there — get rid of that!

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû'ah).

It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about consequences. Don't be afraid to get involved.