What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base.

(Greg) Maddux is a master. He carved us up. He didn't give us anything good to hit.

I've always said I'd rather see a club that's won 10 or 12 in a row than a club that's lost 10 or 12 in a row because they're tougher.

Security is something when you don't have any confidence and you want somebody to pay you when you don't do the job.

It is said, in Imardin, that the wind has a soul, and that it wails through the narrow streets because it is grieved by what it finds there.

Arrogance likes to appear humble in public.

Money shouldn't be worshiped and it shouldn't be ignored.

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

Everything in our society is so purposeful.