Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

Drinking is not a spectator sport.

When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.

Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.

All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.

Everything is as real as nothing, whatever way the nothing itself is defined.

To speak of mystery in a Christian sense means that the human mind is finite and not fully able to understand, deduce or even contain the deep structures of God's reality.

Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before.

There is nothing more dangerous to the formation of a prose style than the endeavour to make it poetic.

With Kevin [Drew], as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.

Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

It's really funny if two women stand on the House floor. There are usually at least two men who go by and say, 'What is this, a coup?' They're almost afraid to see us in public together.

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.