Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

Life is for service.

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

All hail, Queen Shit-of-Liesville!

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

For the love of god, find something actually socially useful to do with your money. Because if you don't, socialism's going to start looking a lot better to a whole lot of people.

Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.

It just works better for me to discriminate between which thoughts are mine and which come from elsewhere, before I even talk about them or express them - it helps to keep me focused on my path.

I think the deal is not great for the players. It is definitely an owner-friendly deal.

Only - only that, if you believe the tales, it's in the nature of our people to go to war and to kill, just as it is to sing and play and tell stories. Perhaps they are two halves of the same whole.

To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.