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

Umpires are most vigorous when defending their miscalls.

Drinking is not a spectator sport.

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.

Great obstacles are no match for a great God.

Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting alone was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan.

Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

I don't tell people I'm white anymore - I'm albino-Cambodian.

[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.

The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics, in art

Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence.

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.