Tom Cruise only makes one or two film appearances a year. A baseball player can be the hero or the goat one-hundred and sixty-two times a year.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

These days baseball is different. You come to Spring Training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready your lawyer lined up.

I chose baseball because to me baseball is the best game of all.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

You have to go understand that life and baseball is littered with all kinds of obstacles and problems along the way. You have to learn how to overcome them to be successful in life.

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

I never had to cheat, I get them with what I got.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another.

He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

Beauty will save the world

I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.

My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.

I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight.

That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.

Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.

Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.

Beingness is just joy.