When I lose, I drink, and when I win I celebrate.

Never try to snow a snowman.

Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

Right now I feel that I've got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.

How can a guy win a game if you don't give him any runs?

People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

I regret that I can't sit in the stands and watch me.

Respecting requests, rules and privacy is a universal law. You break that basic etiquette 101, you're seriously flawed.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

Then you have to be nothing. Want nothing. You can't have them-Kat or Annabel-if you need them. You're not a husband. You're not a father. You're a man with a task. Understand?

If a deadly snake slithering around in a pre-school bit a child, would you box it up for a month as punishment, and then release it to prey upon the children once again?

It is not usual to speak of an employee as a partner, and yet what else is he?

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job.