When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

I never lost confidence in myself, no matter what the years were like or the results.

I'd like to get back and win the World Series and have that be the last image in my mind for the postseason.

When you're pitching, you always have to make continual improvements. You always have to better yourself throughout your career.

It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches.

I want to be a guy who can be relied upon.

You win and lose as a team.

The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.

I'm not going to be a guy who does dances after he strikes somebody out. I'm not like that. I just want to secure a win. That's my job.

If they know you're a nibbler, they're going to wait and look for that. Hitters have to be more aggressive if you're more aggressive.

Whenever you don't have a good game, whether you're a starter, reliever, whatever, you definitely want to get out there again as soon as you can.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing.

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe

I think it's a message of economic nationalism. It's obviously one that has bubbled up before in certain pockets, but it's never been the sort of powerful phenomenon that it is today.

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

Kids do better, frankly [when the economy is strong]. Jobs make great years for kids.

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

At the end of the day, it's important to know what really matters most in life...your sanity, your health, your family, and the ability to start anew.

It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious.

Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.